School: An Dúinín (roll number 4444)
- Location:
- Dooneen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: R. Ó Motharua
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0298, Page 131
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- "Suidhe Fínn" means the chair of Fionn and is a roughly made chair cut out of a rock. This rock is on top of a hill between Dooneen and Bluid. Old people say that Fionn Mac Cumhall used to sit on this chair and watch the chase every morning.
The Fianna had a competition in this parish long ago in jumping and Fionn won it, because he jumped from a gill in Bawnishal callwed "Cnoc na nGabhar" to the "Stags" near Toehead.
There is a well in Toehead called "Tobhar Pártalan". It got its name from a man called Pártalan because he got his sight restored at this well, and he used to come to it every day to prat.
There is a gap in Ballycahane called "geata na gcorp". Long ago when there was a funeral and when it passed this gap, the coffin used be left down in the(continues on next page)
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