School: Oileán Baoi (Dursey) (roll number 13138)
- Location:
- Dursey Island, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0274, Page 133
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: Oileán Baoi (Dursey)
- XML Page 133
- XML “Bád Sí in Béal Átha Bó”
- XML “The Ball of Light the Lobster Men Saw”
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
- (continued from previous page)Garnish. He made enquiries afterwards and he found out that all the Dursey seines were gone home long before that hour and no other living seine could be out at the time.
- Less than a dozen years ago there were four Dursey-men out pot fishing and this night they were hauling their pots under the land outside Poll a’ Bháid. One of the four, a lad they used call Moore (Múr) was making a haggard cock the same day for “T.J”. They were hauling away and the next thing they saw was the big light leaving “T.J.’s” house in Cill Mhichíl and moving over towards where the haggard cock was.“Oh!” says Moore, “that is T.J. coming out now to see the fine(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Dudley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmichael, Co. Cork
