School: Áth Treasna (C.)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)there was a man taken out of
his house in the middle of
the night and hanged on the
tree. The man had grabbed land
and he was threatened several
times. In Priory Wood there is a
field called "The Forgotten Field". It is inside in the middle of
the wood at the bottom of a
big cliff. It is said that the
field was never used for three hundred years, in olden as it way was forgotten "Maoilinn's Rock is about a mile to the south west of the town. It is situated near the ruins of a big castle. Long ago the daughter of the chief of the castle got married. Her name was Maoilinn. On the night of the wedding she was stolen by a band of fairies and taken into a cave in the rock(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr William Quinlan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
