School: Clochar
- Location:
- An Clochar, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: M. Ó Gealbháin
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- Castlebourke was owned another time by a thief and a villain. I do not know if he was of the Bourke People. This is how he used to work his foul play. At the top of the castle was a room - its gone now - and in the floor of that room there was a trap door so nicely put in that nobody in the world would notice it if he wasn't told the likes was in it. Under the trap door was a hole going all the way down from the top of the big house to the lake at the bottom. At that time the lake was going in a tunnel under the castle though tis closed up now. Well, when this(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Micheál Ó Gealbháin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Pat Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- An Cillín, Co. Mhaigh Eo