School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile
- Location:
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Úna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 290
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- Before the Famine swept the people off the land Clasheen had a public house a carpenter's shop and several dwellings. There was one Sunday in the year called Clasheen Sunday when people made it a point of assembling at Clasheen for dancing and other diversion. This custom may have been founded on an ancient but almost forgotten "pattern". There is a vague tradition that the spring at the side of the road is a holy well, It has no name that I have heard of. Close by are two other wells called Tobar an Ime and Tobar Ola. The high wall is said(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Séamus Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
