School: Crummy (roll number 12691)
- Location:
- Crummy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Rodacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 327
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- It is said that Fionn Mac Cool and his men are asleep in a cave in Sheemore waiting to be called to free Ireland. One day a man was minding sheep in a field nearby. He saw a cave on the top of Sheemore and there was a door on it. He went in and turned the key in the door. He heard a strange noise within..He heard people snoring and wakening inside, and the hounds barking and the sounds of swords clattering. Suddenly he heard a voice saying, "Did the time come yet?" The man took to his heels and Fionn and the Fianna went to sleep again.
- Collector
- Lizzie Mulvey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumaweel Glebe, Co. Leitrim
