School: Árd Phádraig
- Location:
- Ardpatrick, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Conaill
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 215](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0509%2FCBES_0509_215.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 215
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Árd Phádraig
- XML Page 215
- XML “O Sullivan Beare's March”
- XML “Leaba Loscair (Oscair) and Ogham Stone”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Donal O Sullivan stayed a night on the mountain here on his famous march to the north. The tradition (Maurice Herbert & others) here is that he & his people slept on the mountain overlooking Mount Russell (townland) which at this point is fairly level & dry.
They approached from the Doneraile (southerly) direction & when they resumed their march passed eastwards over the townland of Toor through the Robbers' glen, fighting a 'battle' in the glen (lands of Mr Mescall of Toor). A sword was found long ago on this farm (supposed to be on site of the skirmish). I have not been able to trace this sword.
O Sullivan passed eastwards over Monine (townland) in the direction of the Glen of Aherlow keeping to the south of the Slíabh Ríabhach near Kilfinane).
(Please note I am current farmer of Toor the sword was donated to bruee museum.J.Meskell) - Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.