School: Firies (B.) (roll number 15945)

Location:
Fieries, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Mainchín
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  1. 1 Paddy Flynn
    2 Kilnanare, Firies Farranfore
    3 11 years of age
    4 school pupil
    5 Kilnanare
    6 Denis Flynn
    7
    8
    9
    10 27th of January 1936
    The red rose and the briar
    At Kilnanare graveyard there is a old ruin in the middle. Not so long ago lived a a girl and a who were friends eatch other dearly. One died a few days after the other died. One buried outside the ruin and the other inside. After a while a pure red rose grew out of one grave and a briar out of the other and knotted at the top of the wall and no one could trace the knot. But when they were clearing the church a man probably named Mannix cut it but he got a bad leg which no doctor could cure. A stonecutter who saw the know cut it on a stone and placed it on the wall of the ruin. The wall fell and the stone broke a piece is still below at the church and the tracing may be seen on the stone. Other heads of monks engraved in stone are up in the sound wall yet and a mitred head is on
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Folktales index
    AT0970: The Twining Branches
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Paddy Flynn
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    11
    Address
    Kilnanare, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Denis Flynn
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilnanare, Co. Kerry