School: Droichead na Dóinne (roll number 10261)
- Location:
- Blackwater Bridge, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Scolaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0465, Page 042
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- Plás a Rinnce is the name of a place in Sherky Island. The people used go to pay rounds once a year because it was a holy place. A great many women used build tents and give dinners and teas to the strangers. There used be fiddlers playing and people dancing and that's why it was called Plás a Rinnce. There used be drink there. One day there was a barrel of whisky spilled there. Where the whisky ran buidineach (coarse finnaun) grew there. It never grew but four or five inches high. No animal ever eats it. On the south of the island there is a big round hole down through the rock about five or six feet deep. People say there was a pot of gold found there. It is said the island was made of a sheaf of straw. It was once called Sheaf Island, but it is known by the name of Sherky Island now.
- Informant
- Mrs John O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 60
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Derrivillane, Co. Kerry
