School: Drumlease (roll number 15382)
- Location:
- Droim Lias, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Thomas Dillon
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0200, Page 185](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0200%2FCBES_0200_185.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0200, Page 185
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: Drumlease
- XML Page 185
- XML (no title)
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
(no title) (continued)
“About two miles from Dromahair in Kilcoosey there is a Lough called the "Blind Lough".”
(continued from previous page)Times in the air and whistled each time. He then rolled back to the Lough and immediately hundreds of eels were seen on top of the water and then all together they let one great loud whistle which was heard for miles around. Then they all disappeared and there was never an eel seen in that lake since.- Collector
- John O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Chuasaigh, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- Thomas Mc Goldrick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 88
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Cill Chuasaigh, Co. Liatroma