School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0462, Page 308
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- Jim Foley, 72, of Carrigaline, Co. Cork, told my brother, Diarmuid, on Dec. 20th, 1938, that he remembered two fellows whom he + a companion had to convey home on a bright moonlight night - they were completely moon-blind - about 45 years ago (before 1938). "You must be moonblind", is a common expression in Carrigaline still.
One of those moonblind men used to be blind in his house while the bright moon lasted + recovered his sight only at the return of the "dark moon".
- Collector
- Seán Ó Súilleabháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrylough, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Jim Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
