School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 182
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- (continued from previous page)again. It is said that red is an unlucky colour.
- The Lone Bush
On Mike Flannery's hill in Creevagh there is a lone bush. It has grown there for the past hundred years, and never seems to grow any bigger. It is said that, if a person walks three times round the bush they are taken in the fairies. In this village there once lived a man, Pat Flannery who had very good courage when a young boy. He kept walking round the bush three times and he then found himself taken to a lovely door, and through a long hall, into a large dining room and given nice food to eat. Pat was very cute(continues on next page) - Collector
- Ita Mac Manus
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creevagh, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- James Mc Manus
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Creevagh, Co. Offaly
