School: An Clochar, Baile Caisleáin Bhéara (roll number 13762)
- Location:
- Castletownbere, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Rosáraí
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0278, Page 068
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- 'Scoil' This field is so called because there was a school there in days gone by.
'Muintean Caol' This is so called on account of its being a narrow field.
'Scrahan Ban' this gets its name from a clump of briars which grow in the middle of it.
'The Devil's Rock' on this rock which is situated in Lonhart Battery are the print of the devil's hoof and Our Lord's foot. When anybody goes there they cast a stone at the hoof and they kiss the foot.
'Carraig na mBan' It is said that three women were gathering carraigín moss on this rock and that the tide swept them away.
'The Middle Stone" It is said that a giant flung this stone which stands in the middle of Bere Island from Carbery after a chieftain who had wronged him.
- Collector
- Margaret Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bear Island, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Jermiah Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Bear Island, Co. Cork
