School: Doire na Creiche
- Location:
- Derrycreigh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Drioscóil
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- The townland in which our school is situated is called Derry Creha. This is how it got its name. There lived a chieftain in Castletown Bere. There lived a chieftain near Drimoleague named O'Donovan. One night O'Donovan went west to Beara on a cattle raid. He gathered all the cattle he could find and was driving them homewards. He had them brought as far as below the school. O'Sullivans men told O'Sullivan that his cattle were taken. So O'Sullivan gathered his army and followed O'Donovan. He got up to him near the doctor's house. They fought a bloody battle and at last O'Sullivan won. O'Donovan fled with his life. The stones over the graves of O'Donovan's men are still to be seen in the wood above the Doctor's house.
- Informant
- Denis Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ardaturrish Beg, Co. Cork
