School: Béal Átha hUbhla (C.) (roll number 3998)
- Location:
- Ballyhooly, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chaoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0372, Page 368
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- The Powerful Tree and WellThere was a tree called "Crann Cómacíac" middle ways in the crew line not far from the village.
There was a well under the tree.
St Patrick said Mass there once.
He had no clerk but a voice from the tree answered it.
Some time after a woman washed her clothes in the well.
It disappeared from that spot and is now in a field on our farm.
A man broke sticks off the above tree and when he was to go home he put the bundle on his back but he clung to the tree bundle and all.
- The Castle OrchardThere is a field on our farm called the Castle Orchard.
It was so called because one time it was an orchard belonging to the Castle.
The apples grown there were called Ballyhooly Apples
The trees died of old age but there is still a tree there with a large square piece cut out of it where the juice used to be pressed out of(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kathleen Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyhooly, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick J. Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballyhooly, Co. Cork
