School: Cill Moicheallóg (B.) (roll number 15740)
- Location:
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Conchobhar Mac Raghnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 455
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- (continued from previous page)On the road leading from Kilmallock to Tankardstown, which is two and a half miles west of Kilmallock, stands a very ancient moat.
[farm hous]
Near by stands Michael Slattery's farm house. It is said that fairies were seen in in this moat in olden times.Every night a man named Martin Macarthy went home late with messages to Tankardstown.One night he was passing by the moat and two big men with big battons rushed out and haunted him. They asked him where was he going to. He said that he was going home, of course. They said it was no time in the night to go home.They beat him with the battons and put blood flowing from his body.He had therefore to return back again and get a nights lodging at Bridget O Sullivan's,
Sheares St,
Kilmallock.From that night until this Martin Macarthy was no seen out late a night.
- Collector
- Michael Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Mrs Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
