School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 191
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- Names of fields in Dreenlomane.The "Liosathán,"
which is a half-finished fort. Tradition states that the soil was too hard, and the field was too exposed, and that this was the reason the fort was never completed. The "leipreacán" was supposed to be seen there, and an old man found "pipes" in the same field.
The field is about two hundred yards from my house.
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The "leaca,"
where a pot of silver was found. It is about a hundred and fifty yards from my house
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"Páirc na h-abhann,"
which is about one hundred yards from my house.
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"Páirc an Tobair,"
which is about fifty yards from my house
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The long meadow and the brake,
which are about one hundred yards from my house.
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The long leacha,
which was supposed to be the Danes' battery
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- Collector
- Teresa Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr T. Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
