School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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- (continued from previous page)A few years before this, a piper was drowned in the river, opposite the Abbey. At midnight my uncle's father went down to let the workman have some sleep.
After a while the workman said, "When the shadow of the stones of the wall, will come to a certain part of the field, you will hear music over on the "White Rock." My uncle's father was amazed at the workman's statement; and after a term of silence, bagpipes began to play on the Rock.
The Rock is white in colour, and is over a hundred feet high.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Dulohery
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Miss Dunlea
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 78
- Address
- Bridgetown Lower, Co. Cork
