School: Tiercahan
- Location:
- Tircahan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0968, Page 416
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- (continued from previous page)died, and he had only the bare one left. No one ever meddled with it from that good day to this, and it is as old as the ark.
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There is another lonely bush in Drumbar. A man cut the makings of a crapy (stool) off it, and didnt his only child break his leg where he fell off it, cut his nose, and blackened his eye.Another man cut a branch off the same tree and he had no luck ever after.
There is another lonely White-thorn over the well in Talyers field facing Tiercahan School. In Summer it is covered with white-thorn blossoms and neither children nor teachers would dare take any of the blossoms off it. In Winter, the children would not take a cipin off it for the fire, though it is very old, and parts of it rotten. A teacher came to Tiercahan School forty years ago, and he asked some of the childrens to bring him in a few cipins off it for the fire. The children told him at once it was a lonely bush, and theyd be murdered at home(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Pat Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumbar, Co. Cavan
