School: Clonin, Mountrath (roll number 15932)

Location:
Clonin, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Bean Uí Bhraoin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 358

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 358

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Clonin, Mountrath
  2. XML Page 358
  3. XML “Rath at Crawfords”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. An old Resident (79yrs) maintains that it is the burial place of Olum Oilioll who was a famous pagan Kiwi supposed to have been slain at foot of the Slieve Bloom Mountains. Thomas Tuck, a Nat, Teacher of Camross school for a time has his tomb stone inscribed with Ballyoliolane not "Ballyhoran"as the district around this raath is known today and held that, That was the original name of this said place. A large mound near the rath is supposed to cantain gold,an attempt was made to get it but the seekers were frightened off. Collier's Rath stands in the adjoining field. This is overgrown as it is considered unlucky to interfere with bushes, which sprung up for fear for the Good People
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Denis Cavanagh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    79
    Address
    Ballyhorahan, Co. Laois