Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)

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   “It is long now is I mind o' ta hear me mother God be good to her, tellin' me this sthory.”

   

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   arose, they saw the field dotted over with various sthones, all o' different shapes an' sizes that they knew washtn't in it the day before.

   

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   “There is an ould thradition about Townagh church thats in the parish o' Rhivershtown...”

   

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   There is an ould thradition about Townagh Church thats in the parish o' Rhivershtown, an' it says that it was not always there. That the Church was formerly in Carrowkeel, an' that wan night fot ever was the cause o' it, the church disappeared out o' the place an' was found aftherwards in Townagh.
   An it is said that when it was crossin Drumfinn bog on its journey, a sthone fell out o' the gable, into the bog, an' the ould people o' the disthrict sthill point it out, an wan id miss it out o' the gable o' the church at Townagh if they looked close at it.

   

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   Date

   23 April 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Higgins

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   “There is anether legend tould about the ould church at Shanco.”

   

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   There is anether legend tould about the ould church at Shanco. Ye know there was a church an' a cashtle there, an' they war connected by an undherground passage.
   Well it was is far back is the fourteenth century that this that Im goin ta tell ye happened.
   It was a young phriesht that was in the disthrict, an it seems he was very poor, an' fot was worshe on him

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