School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile
- Location:
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Úna
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 280
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- (continued from previous page)possibly in connection with the celebration of the old Carmelite Feast in the Abbey Church.
About eighty years ago a boy named Scott lived with his parents in a narrow lane leading from Friar's Gate to the Abbey.
They had "a basin of goold sovereigns on their dresser." Scott went to a Sunday dance in Browne's Mills as was then customary and whilst rambling around the village he noticed sprouting above the ground three young trees growing from seeds dropped there during the previous winter. These he carefully removed brought home and planted on a ditch by the Abbey Well.
Notwithstanding Scott's constant attention only one sapling took kindly to the strange ground.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eílis Ní Shúirdáin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Séamus Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
