School: Ballyporeen (roll number 15134)
- Location:
- Béal Átha Póirín, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: L. Ó Conchubhair
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“About half a mile west of Ballyporeen there is a borheen which leads to a river.”
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- Seán Ua hAoileán
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- This old Lios is about three miles from Ballyporeen. It is in the townland of Killtankin. It is said that if you cut a tree or took a stick out of this Lios you would be killed. A man cut down a tree out of it one day, and the next day as he was unloading sheet iron a bit fell on him and killed him.
- The old fairy bush about one mile from Ballyporeen at Kilcaroon was felled recently by a storm. It is the tradition of the old people that it stood there for centuries and they tell an old story of a hunchback who was cured(continues on next page)
