School: Ballinard (B.), Cnoc Luinge
- Location:
- Ballinard, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Riain
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- (continued from previous page)Fitzgerald said to send the boy up to the castle, and that he would do what he could for her. The widow did so, and when she called for her son in the evening he was tame enough, for (?) Fitzgerald had hung him on the gallows. The widow then went down on her knees and pronounced her mallachd ( curse ) on Fitzgerald, his race, and castle, and so this branch the Fitzgeralds, which was connected with the Glin (??) family, has died out, and merely the foundation of the castle (?) are left. This castle stood near Mulcahy's Cross or as it was known to the old people " Cros no Seano Céardchan ". This name still survives among the old inhabitants.The constant drop of rain which has worn a hole in the stone the people term " Braon Sionnsior ", and say it is the widow's tear.
- One morning as a woman was coming across the fields near Ballinard churchyard after milking cows she saw a little (?) of gold on the ground and as she had no vessel in which to carry the gold she lay down the spancel to know where she found the gold, she ran home for a vessel but lo! when she reutrned the field was covered all over with spancels and there was no sign of the gold.
