School: Clandouglas, Lic Snámha (roll number 10380)
- Location:
- Clondouglas, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Bean Uí Sheanacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0412, Page 112
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- The hero I have heard of is Maurice Scanlan. The story was told to me by my father Eugene Sullivan aged 65 years and residing at Ballyrehan, Lixnaw.
This man Scanlan was famous for cowarding cross bulls. A gentleman by the name of George Hewson who lived at Innish More always kept a cross bull with his cattle.
He Scanlon used go into the field the bull was in, with no other weapon but a black thorn stick to defend himself.
He would battle with the bull until he would catch hold of his tail. Then he could drive him wherever he wished.
In former years people from Innish More district brought the dead along the river Feale by boat to Dysert church. In those times there were no bridges across the rivers.
This man Scanlan was always made aware the night before, when a funeral was going to the church.
No one would venture to cross the river but Scanlan,because there was a cross bull on one side(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thady Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyreehan West, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Eugene Sullivan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyreehan West, Co. Kerry
