A Legend of Ballingaddy Lake
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Story from: James O'Connor.
Ballingaddy. Kilmallock."A Legend of Ballingaddy Lake"There is a lake in Ballingaddy and there is a legend told about it. This is it:-Long ago there lived two old giantesses up the mountains. One day they fought and one of them ran away to a smaller mountain. This she thought was too small so she came down to Ballingaddy to get some land to make the mountain higher.
When she came near Ballingaddy Chapel she took an apron full of earth and went up again. When she was going up by Ardpatrick the strings of her apron broke and the earth fell out and it was never taken away. That is how the hill of Ardpatrick was formed and it is also where Ballingaddy Lake is now, where she took the earth from.
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Eileen O' Connor, 12.
Ballingaddy,
Kilmallock.
Ballingaddy. Kilmallock."A Legend of Ballingaddy Lake"There is a lake in Ballingaddy and there is a legend told about it. This is it:-Long ago there lived two old giantesses up the mountains. One day they fought and one of them ran away to a smaller mountain. This she thought was too small so she came down to Ballingaddy to get some land to make the mountain higher.
When she came near Ballingaddy Chapel she took an apron full of earth and went up again. When she was going up by Ardpatrick the strings of her apron broke and the earth fell out and it was never taken away. That is how the hill of Ardpatrick was formed and it is also where Ballingaddy Lake is now, where she took the earth from.
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Eileen O' Connor, 12.
Ballingaddy,
Kilmallock.