School: Cillín
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Hubáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 562
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- (continued from previous page)the lisheen and letters cut in the stones.In John Mc Gurre's land Carroweur there is a fort. A man was going visiting. He heard the hens screeching and children laughing.
- This lisheen is on the lands of Pat Tighe, Muingreevagh, Ballycastle Co. Mayo.At one time this old fort or Lisheen was graveyard for children who where born dead.
- One night a man named Pat Doherty was coming home late at the hour of three o clock at night time from the town. It was a moonlight night, and he looked up at the Lisheen, and he saw a crowd of men dressed in white, about two feet high dancing around the Lisheen. There was so many of them in it that he(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Munnelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muingrevagh, Co. Mayo
