Scoil: Gort an Gharrdha (uimhir rolla 11384)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Lanigan's Folly (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   The tower gave the hill the appearance of a volcano, surmounted with a funnel. Perhaps such an effect suggested itself to the (eccentric) sensitive mind, of the eccentric Lanigan O'Keefe, a lawyer and landlord of the place, when in 1840 he set about building this tower, as a memorial of his victory in a lawsuit with a neighbouring landlord, in connection with the patch of ground on the pinnacle of the hill.
   To carry out his project he made a winding road around the hill and then with the aid of oxen drew the stones and mortar to the top where the tower was erected, and soon came to be called 'Lanigan's Folly', a name which it still bears today.
   a structure in such a commanding place attracted interest, and the custom grew up of holding a pattern there once a year in late summer. Such was the wantonness of the people who went there, that they began to pick stones from the base of the tower and throw them down the slope to enjoy and be thrilled by their mad unbroken rush to the bottom hundreds of feet below. In time the tower became undermined

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   William Kennedy

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   An Bhréadach, Co. Thiobraid Árann