School: Cill Fhínghín (roll number 16222)
- Location:
- Killeeneen More, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033, Page 0317
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- (continued from previous page)sun set the bird would be then asleep waiting for a misty evening to approach one more. Scaling up the walls of the Caher they found the bird asleep on a topfold stone. Brushing with fury that dread sometimes give, they struck her several deadly blows. Waking in her death agony she uttered one piercing unearthly cry that seemed to shake the very earth around her. Frightened and panic stricken the attackers fled and so closely were they followed by their enemies that huddling as they tried to enter their Caher they blocked the entrance. Except for the few that entered all were destroyed outside. The attackers now entered and dragged them from their hiding place, put them coldly and cruelly to death. From this incident comes the name Caher-furwais (Cathair fuar bais) the Caher of the cold death, and Caherduvane the black bird. (Cathair Dub-ín)
- Collector
- Kathleen Glynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killeeneen More, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Glynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Killeeneen More, Co. Galway
