School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)
- Location:
- Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 407
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: Rathcarran
- XML Page 407
- XML “Local Ruins”
- XML “Weather-Lore”
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
- There are ruins in the school district. There is a ruin in Rathcarn. The seven Plunkets lived in Rathmore castle. Cromwell invited them to the hill of Ward and when he got them in range he shot them and knocked the castle. There is another churchyard called the Member Church. The Black church is in Dunderry. Cromwell knocked it down.
- It is a sign of rain when the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Cusack
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Mhistéil, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Cusack
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 45
