School: Baile an Mhuilinn
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Shigín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 360
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- Cashelgarron which means "The horse's castle" is said to have got its name in the following manner. In Glenade lake lived two Derragoola or water-dogs and close to this lake lived a man named McLoughlin. As the custom long ago was for no women to wash their clothes in a lake or stream, his wife went one day to the lake and as she did not return as soon as usual he went to see what was keeping her and found her with Derragoola reposing on her bosom.Without saying a word to anyone he went for his gun and shot him in her bosom, where he lay. He gave a dying shriek which was answered by his comrade in the water. McLoughlin and his brother decided to fly from him and rode on horseback westward to an old castle in the townland of Cashelgarron. The Derragoola followed in close pursuit and both brothers rode into this castle and tying their horses, leaped sideways to the wall overhead.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ada Shaw
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynagalliagh, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Miss E. Shaw
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 96
- Address
- Ballynagalliagh, Co. Sligo
