School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)
- Location:
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shíthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0318, Page 326
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- (continued from previous page)masonry are almost toppling from its top. Some people say that the leper hospital was near this mill, and others say that the mill itself was the hospital, some people say that the lepers were always shouting "unclean, unclean." There is an old ruin in Innishannon about 3 miles outside the town of Bandon. It is called Downdaniel castle."Its ruined towers and ivy grand.
Are but remnants of the beauty
Of our once proud native land."A man named Barry óg lived in this castle with his daughter Eileen - the fairest maid in Munster."His little daughter Eileen, his darling and his pride,
And no fairer maid than she, dwelt in that wide country-side
And many a high-bred chieftain, with castle and broad land,
Would have gladly knelt at Eileen's feet, if honoured with her hand."But this Eileen was in love with Roche the chieftain of Pól-na-Long (Shippool). And every night the lovers would meet near Downdaniel"And the light from out his true love's Eileen(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Caitlín Ní Miodhache
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs O Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lislevane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Timmy Collins
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garrane, Co. Cork
