School: Loughine, An Sciobairín (roll number 12319)
- Location:
- Pookeen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: David Ó Caoimh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0297, Page 061
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Loughine, An Sciobairín
- XML Page 061
- XML “A Famous Person”
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
- We hear of several famous people who are noted for many things such as lifting heavy bags and throwing the sledge and numerous others. There is an old man named Pat Regan and he lives in the townland of Gurteenloman, Skibbereen Co. Cork
He is noted for his storytelling. He tells many fairy tales and stories of olden times since his youth. He is called "a great Seanachie. He can read very well and can explain every word he reads. He can speak the Irish language fairly well also. Long ago there were a great many Seanachies compare to those nowadays.
- Collector
- Siobhán Ní Donnachadha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lahernathee, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John O' Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyally, Co. Cork
