School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407, Page 065
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- (continued from previous page)sore. He was in bed for six months and he died in about a year after. Another story is told about it. One night two men went torching and they had a lamp with them. So they were beating the hedge at each side when out came a big blackbird. They were just going to draw on the bird when a big naked man jumped out of the hedge and caught their hands. They never afterwards went torching by night near that fort.
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- Informant
- John Synan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
