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School: Baile Caisleáin Bhéara (B.) (roll number 4843)

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Castletownbere, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0278, Page 004

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    “There was an old man from Clonaglaskin...”

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    There was an old man from Clonaglaskin working in the mine at Allihies about seventy years ago. One night as he was coming across the hill taking the short-cut he slipped and fell over a cliff and was killed and a couple of days later he was found and buried. And since then anyone crossing the hill at that spot always casts a stone over the cliff so that the dead man's spirit would not trouble them. And legend has it that anyone who does not cast a stone will die in the same way.
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Art Mac Meirbic
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Castletownbere, Co. Cork