School: Clashaganny (roll number 8051)
- Location:
- Clashaganny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Albert Flanagan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 131
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)
- XML School: Clashaganny
- XML Page 131
- XML (no title)
- XML (no title)
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
(no title) (continued)
“Remains of ancient village mile to the west of the school.”
(continued from previous page)This account I got from my father who heard it from his grandfather who was at a fair there. The village went down and the people left it about 1800
Michael J. Connolly
Standard VI
(no title)
“The place known as the White Gates is situated about a mile to the south of the school...”
The place known as the White Gates is situated about a mile to the south of the school and was before the local ranches were divided into residental holdings a very lonely district.
There is an old tradition that there is a very wicked gost. supposed to appear at a place called the White Gates a place near Clashaganny and the old people of the neighbourhood tell how often they saw it. One night how ever it happened that a man and his son passed this way and as they were passing an old elderberry bush that is growing by the side of the main road just at the begining of the hill a very strange man without a head accompanied them as far as those dreaded gates Before they could know where they were he disappeared. This man and his son were(continues on next page) - Collector
- Teresa Mc Dermott
- Gender
- Female