School: Bouleenshere (C.) (roll number 12865)
- Location:
- Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mary A. Walsh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417, Page 415
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- Mucán na gCat is an underground passage situated in the townland of Tiduff about one hundred yards from the cliff. There is an opening or doorway about two feet wide and three feet high in it. After entering this a person can travel different apartments leading one after another into an outlet on the side of the cliff.
There is very little known about it, except that it was used by the smugglers in the fourteenth century for storing tobacco which was seized by robbers from merchant ships conveying it from the different countries where tobacco was grown to any of the Irish ports. In more recent times during the civil war in this country it was used as a hiding place by the Insurgents. It was also as a prison for anyone who did not obey the laws of the old IRA organisation.
It is of Danish origin and though it is centuries old it is(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Edmond Flahive
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Glenderry, Co. Kerry
