School: Drumcormack (roll number 13201)
- Location:
- Drumcormick, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Nora Healy
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0257
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Drumcormack
- XML Page 0257
- XML “Keash”
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
- (continued from previous page)the hill is so called from the Irish word Ceis signifying "harp strings" because the entrance to the caves on the west side shorten in a graduated scale like the strings of a harp. It is said : - "Here used to dwell the gentle Corran whose hand was skilful in playing the harp. Here was the generous man not without literature, or in a churlish fortress, but in a place where the stranger was at liberty to sojourn with him. Some say the name comes from a lady called Ceis who after being transformed into a pig was killed there. We have it according to legend that Ceis was the name of a lady who with five others(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lugacaha, Co. Sligo
