School: Cloonlyon G. (roll number 12937)
- Location:
- Cloonlyon, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Annie Burke
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0116, Page 183
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- (continued from previous page)heard + some of the old people said that they would not go near the wood after dark. Down to recently this peculiar cry was heard in the wood + people avoided it at night. The old people called it the "Beac a dawn"
Name of bird.
Others said it was a ghost + when heard it meant death.
Finn in whose land the passage ends got a manuscript once but the people were unable to read + it got destroyed.
It was supposed that that contained the secret of both Castle + passage.
