School: Castleplunkett (roll number 15545)
- Location:
- Castleplunket, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0245, Page 126
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- "When I was a young fellow there was a great superstition attached to swans on account of the old legends concerning them I suppose. It was a common belief that if a lone swan appeared on the "turlough" near my home, that someone was sure to die in Castle Plunkett, so you may be sure that no one liked to see him come. On no account would anyone shoot a swan, but there was one man named Stephen Connama, and he considered himself above believing in such pistreóga, so one day he went(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tomás Seósamh Ó Ruaidhrí
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Patrick Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Castleplunket, Co. Roscommon
