School: Scattery Island
- Location:
- Scattery Island, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Nóra Ní Cholgáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0630, Page 209
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: Scattery Island
- XML Page 209
- XML “The Castle”
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
- Near the shore, not far from Teampull na Marbh, are the vaults of a castle, which was erected by the lay Coibe of Inis Chathaigh towards the end of the sixteenth century.None of the islanders know for what purpose this castle was built. They all believe, however, that there is an underground passage leading from it to St. Mary's Church. One old man, a Patrick Scanlan, says that the monks used imprison in this castle every soldier sent to the island by Queen Elizabeth.
The castle is now looked upon as the property of Michael Scanlan, and he displays(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Melican
- Gender
- Female
