School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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- (continued from previous page)horseback with her husband. My grandmother said that her aunt rode home with her husband after being married in Ballydehob. An ancient beleif about Shrove was that if the married couple had not gone to their home before twelve o' clock on Shrove Tuesday night they would be unlucky.
- During the Penal Days there lived in the neighbourhood of Goleen a man named O' Brien. The soldiers took him captive but he escaped from them. He went home and his people hid him in a turf rick.
The soldiers found out his hiding place and they gathered around the rick and kept striking the rick with batons until in the end they put a dagger through his heart.
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The soldiers had a great camp(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary J. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs E. Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Drishane, Co. Cork
