School: Gleanntán, Scairteach an Ghleanna (roll number 7563)
- Location:
- Cordal Thoir, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Muiris Breathnach
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- In many remote places there are men of renown laid to rest and luckily enough I live quite close to one. The name of this man was Diarmuid Don[nell?]. The place in which he was buried is called Knockdown. We do not know much about him as very few old people live among us. Everyone has a different story about how he came to this hill, some say that he stood on the top of a mountain one day and that he threw a stone and it fell in Knockdown and that he said that would be his(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bríd Ní Laoghaire
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glantane, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- Mr John Mannix
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gleann Eoghain, Co. Chiarraí