School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dún Béacáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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- It is said that mass used to be said in an old cablach in Libeen Hill during the Penal Times. That spot was chosen because it is a very quiet place and a priest used to come and say mass there. The ruins of the cabhlach are still to be seen and every night a light can be seen near the ruins. We can see that light from our door at any time of the night from about ten o'clock until morning.
- Account of Drowning.
Near a great big lake called Faill Bheag lake in Kilcrohane there lived a Mc Carthy family. One night about a hundred years ago one of the family aged eighteen years went out swimming in the lake as he used take a(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tSeantulaigh Thuaidh, Co. Chorcaí
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- Mrs Mary Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- An tSeantulaigh Thuaidh, Co. Chorcaí