School: Synge, Inagh (roll number 14440)
- Location:
- Glennageer, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máirtín Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0612, Page 326
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and sportive were at their sports, the old and pious were engaged in performing rounds at St Muchans Holy well and praying on the bed of the patron saint.
This patron of St Muchan's was subsequently removed to Leacht Uí Chonchobair, now Lahinch where the tribe of O' Connor of Corcomroe were in the habit of meeting to celebrate the Oenach Gabha or mourning assembly (fair) of their chieftain O'onnor, King of Western Corcomroe, who was buried in that place and who Leacht (monumental pile) gave the name Leacht Uí Chonchobair to this place.
The Leacht has now disappeared and its place is now occupied by the Victoria Hotel at lahinch, and I question if there are many who can tell much of its history, and nothing now remains to commerate the last of the O'Connors Kings of western Corcomroe, but the word Leacht, the present contracted form of Leacht Uí Chonchobair, or Lahinch.
Thus I have collected the traditional history of the ancient assemblies of Buaile na greine, showing how it has(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liam O' Looney
- Gender
- Male
