School: Killorglin (C.) (roll number 12833)
- Location:
- Killorglin, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Úna Nic Choluim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0435, Page 225
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- (continued from previous page)that it formed a lake and covered his house and its ruins can still be seen in the lake which is now called "Comar na Muc" or "Comar na Brock."
Before this old man died, he said that Comar na Muc would always give drink to thirst and feed the hunger. This is the story of how Comar na Muc, the lake from which Killorglin gets its water supply, got its name.
- There was a man living in Castle Conway named Erra Banáin. He had two horns grown out of his forehead. He was supposed to be very good to the poor, for at night he used to bring any poor people he met into the Castle. He used put them to sleep in a special bed. There was a spring in the bed so that when any one went into it the bed brought them down to an underground moat(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dóla Ní Riordáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killorglin, Co. Kerry
