School: Clochar na Trócaire, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Tralee, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Proinnsias
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0440, Page 035
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- Ballyheigue is about eleven miles north of Tralee, on the Kerry coast. There is a churchyard under the sea, a few miles from the coast known as "Teampall Fá Thuinn". It was in this churchyard the Corridon family who lived in Ballyheigue used to be buried in olden times.
When one of them died the coffin was taken to a cliff nearby. At midnight the coffin was taken by unseen hands and buried in this churchyard. There was a widow who had only one son. When he died she was so lonely, that she stayed with the coffin on the cliff until midnight, but the coffin(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Siobhán Chúch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcooly South, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Máire Ní
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmoyly, Co. Kerry
