School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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- There was a man in Templenow called Connor. One day he gathered men and went west to Castletown to steal cattle. They went west and stole the cattle. The people west followed them and they over took them below the top of Cnoc arige road. They fought a big battle there and then it is so called lug na marbh. Ever after that is why Derryconnerry is called it means the last of Connor. Then they followed them west over the hills to derre na clig, and they finished the battle there.
- Collector
- Patrick O Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- James Sullivan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
