School: Ballyhahill (C.) (roll number 10686)
- Location:
- Baile Dhá Thuile, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: H. Fitzgerald
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0482, Page 262
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: Ballyhahill (C.)
- XML Page 262
- XML “Old Irish Tales”
- XML “A Song”
- XML “Local Monuments”
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
- (continued from previous page)went about the house barking and biting each other.
Dawn came at last and Caoilte brought his troop before the King. When the people saw Caoilte wtih all his animals they spoke of "Caoilte's Rabble." The King was bound by his promise to let Finn go. Caoilte won thanks and honour for the great Finn. All the animals scattered, and no two took the same road. The King gained nothing by his harshness but lost all.(continues on next page)
A Song
“No local song was ever heard of here.”
A song
No local song was ever heard of here. - Local Monuments
In Tenekilla, there is a cromlech. It consists of a huge rock, supported on ten brown stones. It is considered to be a memorial, to some great personage of the distant past, buried under it. Some people go as far as to say, that this cromlech was thrown across the Shannon from Clare, by a giant, and that it fell down in Tenehilla Co' Limerick. In the same field where the cromlech is, there is also a Druid's Altar. This altar was used by(continues on next page) - Collector
- Teresa Danaher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cnoc na Buaile Thiar, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- Miss Ellen Scanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Tulach Fhraoigh Uachtarach, Co. Luimnigh
