School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)

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   “This was the wish of an old woman named Joan Riney who lived here about thirty years ago and who never was able to speak but Irish.”

   

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   My father John Riney of Coornagillagh here told me this incident of poor old Joan. She of Clonee here near by.

   

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   “South of Dawros chapel on top of a hill called "Carn" is a place called Caisleán a Caillíge and it is said that that an old had lived here long ago.”

   

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   South of Dawros chapel on top of a hill called "Carn" is a place called Caisleán a Caillíge and it is said that that an old hag lived here long ago. Another old hag lived in a place called Teampall Núadh due north across Kenmare Bay. They once had a great fight. The hag of Carn threw over a great granite boulder which is still seen over limestone rocks being everywhere else.
   The Teampall Nuadh hag seeking vengeance for a

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   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Collector

   Dermot Riney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Coornagillagh, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   John Riney

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Coornagillagh, Co. Kerry