School: Lios an Uisce (roll number 14356)
- Location:
- Lissanisky, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Hánnrachtaigh
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- Mr Scanlon tells me that the old people said that unnatural lights seen at night could be made to disappear by crossing the thumbs - forming the sign of the cross and blowing the breath through the thumbs - in the direction of the light.
- Mr. Wm McDonagh, Kilbegnet, Creggs. told me that he joined the fenians as a young boy. He attended secret meetings at Donamon Castle. A supply of guns arrived and were hidden for a time in the "ice house" on the castle grounds.
Later they were conveyed up the river Suck in a boat and buried or concealed along the banks. - Informant
- Mr William Mc Donagh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilbegnet, Co. Roscommon
