Imleabhar: CBÉ 0407 (Cuid 1)
- Dáta
- 1937
- Bailitheoir
- Suíomhanna
Ar an leathanach seo
(gan teideal) (ar lean)
“My father had a mule...”
Níl tú logáilte isteach, ach tá fáilte romhat tras-scríobh a dhéanamh go hanaithnid. Sa chás seo, déanfar do sheoladh IP a stóráil ar mhaithe le rialú cáilíochta.Má chliceálann tú ar an gcnaipe sábhála, glacann tú leis go mbeidh do shaothar ar fáil faoi cheadúnas Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License agus gur leor nasc chuig dúchas.ie mar aitreabúideacht.- Rosscat, BATTLE of Cats, Ancient & Modern:
"This townland, S of Tullow, scene of a dreadful battle of cats long long ago. Thousands of dead cats were found lying all over the place next morning"(M'athair)
Old man told me 4/Aug/1911: In olden times great fight of cats here. Cats of all classes, colours & sizes collected here & in the morning the plain was covered with dead cats - many ornamented with most precious jewels set in collars etc." Many pools here in dug-out bog: Loc an choinin, Loc ruadh and Big field(Gleann Mor) to S on Ardristan boundary. Now, one of your great Dublin priests (Father Ronan, I think) described in Sunday Independent, a year or two ago, a dreadful battle of cats wh. took place in his time in Merrion if I remember rightly. This latter ac/c offers an extraordinary parallel to the Rosscat legend or tradition. N.B "Loch an Choinín," also,(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)