School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 332
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“One night about twelve o clock two men were coming home from a dance.”
(continued from previous page)bell was ringing and it stopped for a while. Then as they were going to go home the bell was ringing on the other side of the road. Then the men got a fright because they knew that it was the dead bell that was ringing and when that would someone was sure to die. This is a lonesome place and old people say that they were not the only people that heard it. It is said that long ago there was a big in that field and O'Conner's father cut it away and that is why it is so lonesome. There is a name for that field and it is called the Cúilín.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Shanahan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockane, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Bill Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Dromin, Co. Kerry