School: Sailcheartáin (Sillahetane), Dúnmaonmhuighe

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Sailcheartán, Co. Chorcaí
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Íte Ní Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0304, Page 113

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    farm at Phale, Ballineen and he lost 5 horses in two years, he also lost several cattle and pigs; he never again ploughed the field.
    There is a liss in a field belonging to Tim Crowley, Inch, his grandfather ploughed the filed once, and he too lost cattle.
    Con Burke said Patrick Noonan (now dead) went into Leaba Diarmada (on the east side of Nowen Hill) he went through four rooms and he found a pot in one of them.
    The old people used say they often say lights going in the direction of a liss.
    A man once saw his dead wife milking a cow near a liss.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. áiteanna osnádúrtha agus spioradálta (~158)
        1. ráthanna (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Henrietta Clarke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Sailcheartán, Co. Chorcaí