School: Cnoc Crochaire (roll number 4955)
- Location:
- Knockcroghery, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Brian Ó hUidhir
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0266, Page 104
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: Cnoc Crochaire
- XML Page 104
- XML “A Story”
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
- In Kellybrook long ago there were a great many trees some of which are now cut down. Amongst those trees there were a few odd-looking ones which were said to be haunted. On one occasion three men went to cut some of those trees for fire wood. When they began cutting the trees, instead of falling, blood began to come (fall) from them. When the men looked around they saw strange men walking around as if guarding the trees.
The men told the labourers to go home but they did not do so. However after a few hours they saw that it was useless as the trees were not falling. They then went home, and within one year the three men(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hugh Connaughton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corboley, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Sarah Connaughton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corboley, Co. Roscommon
