School: An Chluain
- Location:
- Cloan, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Cearbhaill
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- (continued from previous page)and went out fishing every morning and sold the fish to the miners. They made much money in this way and they worked on the farm in the evenings. One evening when Jim was at work on the farm he saw a sunfish out near 'Céim' so he ran home and told Mike. The two of them ran to the boat and rowed out to the fish and drove the gaff in his eye. They swam out the bay towing the boat after him. They killed the fish near Dursey and sold it in Castletown. They quarrelled over the way the money was divided between them and Jim killed Mike and threw the body in a "cuas" and his ghost is to be seen there on certain times of the year.
- Informant
- Diarmuid Ó hArrachtáin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 88
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Cahermeeleboe, Co. Cork
