School: An Gleann Garbh (roll number 2379)

Location:
Glengarriff, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Caoimhín Ó Séaghdha
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0279, Page 199

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0279, Page 199

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: An Gleann Garbh
  2. XML Page 199
  3. XML “Cures”
  4. XML “The Deer”

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

  1. The children of Glengarriff at preasent know nothing about deer. But their parents would not have that to say.
    Up to thirty years ago Glengarriff was full of deer. They were supposed to be kept in the demesne but they never were.
    The came out by the night and break into the farmer's crops. At first the farmer used to light a fire in one end of the field for the night. But in the end
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mícheál Ó Gealbhain
    Gender
    Male