School: Cill Ruadháin (roll number 7088)
- Location:
- Lisgarode, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Floinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 221
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cill Ruadháin
- XML Page 221
- XML “Local Stories”
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
- In the parish of Ardcroney only about a mile from our house there lies an old hill called Cnock na GCon or the hill of the hounds. There is an old story which tells how this hill got its name and here it is.
One day in the olden times the hunt was going across this hill after a fox which was very far ahead of them. Around this hill are many ditches and as one lady was after jumping one of the ditches she fell from her horse but one of her feet got stuck in the stirrup.
The horse that she was riding did not stop at all but stayed going around in a ring and the lady's head hopping of its hooves. When a man who was following the hunt came to the lady's assistance he found her hanging from her stirrup but she was dead. The lady's name was Pretty. They took her home and when she was to be buried her under the steps of her own door.
The night she was killed a workman coming home from work saw her riding up her own avenue on her white(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Marie Ní Ríain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graigue Upper, Co. Tipperary
