1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Murher (B.)

School: Murher (B.) (roll number 13540)

Location:
Murher, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Conaill
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0404, Page 464

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0404, Page 464

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Murher (B.)
  2. XML Page 464
  3. XML (no title)

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (no title)

    “The castle which was erected in Glenlappa was said to be built with a mixture of blood and mortar.”

    Share Share Post
    The castle which was erected in Glenlappa was said to be built with a mixture of blood and mortar. Once, when a horse and her foal were grazing near the castle. a shot was fired which frightened them. They both took to their heels. and without stopping they jumped from the top of the glen down into the river, and today the print of the horse's hooves can be seen on the solid rock. There is also a field not far from the castle which is called the field of the gallows. It received its name because it was in that field that the English used to hang all guilty people.
    James Windle
    Told by
    Thomas Mulvihill
    Aughrim
    (76)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Windle
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Thomas Mulvihill
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    76
    Address
    Aughrim, Co. Kerry