School: Kilnaleck (C.)

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1. An Account of a Local Landlord Belonging to the District Long Ago (continued)

   

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   with no head. You may hear the noise of the wheels rattling through the stones but it is said that you cannot see anything else. It was on this path through the creamery yard that he tried to make a road but failed and since he was stopped from travelling the path in his lifetime the old people say he must travel it in death. It was "Mad Morton" who bult Kilnaleck National Schools and the teacher's residence.

   The above story was told to me by my sister Miss Queenie Sheridan N.T. She heard it from an old man the late James Callan Coolkill who was at one time a tenant on the estate of the above named landlord.

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Rita Sheridan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cill na Leice, Co. an Chabháin

   Informant

   James Callan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   An Chúlchoill, Co. an Chabháin

   Informant

   Miss Queenie Sheridan

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cill na Leice, Co. an Chabháin