School: Mullinahone (C.) (roll number 15363)
- Location:
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shéaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 330
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- The "Roilg" is situated in Poulacapple West. People were buried there in very olden times.
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- Collector
- Nellie O' Connell
- Address
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Michael Norton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 35
- Occupation
- Baker
- Address
- Muileann na hUamhan, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Situated on Carraig an Clear. It was here the Fenians used to drill. Marie O'Brien
CompseyTold by
Alec Redmond aged 52 yrs Shopkeeper
Carrick St. - BaltínSituated near Kilcash. Named from the ceremony of Bealtaine - beasts going through fire to keep away disease. Kickham mentions the custom in his poem "St John's Eve""His cows the farmer slowly drove across the he knew not why.
Mary J. Tobin
Told by James Maher,
Mullinahone.
