School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 483
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown)
- XML Page 483
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title)
“Two men were cutting a tree near Keane's Lisduff Carrick on Shannon, at a place where a priest was buried.”
Two men were cutting a tree near Kean's Lesduff Carrick on Shannon, at a place where a priest was buried. Daddy joined them and helped them. They cut it and re-cut it with the cross-cut but they could not knock it. They got ropes and pulled it - still they could not stir it.
John Moran, a neighbour, had no turf, as he thought he would have a try to get the tree. Besides, he had an excuse, he had cattle in the field and he was afraid the tree would topple over on them.
The men went home - the night was calm, but in the morning the tree was down. So John Moran did not have a chance to take it down.
The root is still there. Noone would put a hand on it.
NOTE There was a church(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary E. Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aughriman, Co. Leitrim