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School: Corlurgan

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Corlurgan, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
F. Fletcher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0976, Page 139

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    ran up it, it is a long green patch that never withered. In Shannow there and if you put your foot on it you would go astray.
    In Pullabawn there is a place called * ''Beating Bawn'' and it is said that if you get into it, it will be very difficult to get out, and it if from that place that Pullabawn got its name.
    * The old people pronounce the above the ''Betten Bawn.'' The old people have it that there is a child buried there and if a person walks on its grave after six o' clock in the evening, he is supposed to go astray.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Clarebane, Co. Cavan
    Collector
    Kathleen Hyland
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clarebane, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    William Moore
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cornaseer, Co. Cavan