School: Ladhar (B.), Bán-Tír (roll number 3269)
- Location:
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Halladáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 257
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)we're killed. They caught trout and eels in the Glen River and Laughlown Glasha by searn-Fhárc-ing
They were the terror of the farmers living in the lowlands and with the robbers of Cumar-na-mbo, barrahmurm, they mad frequent raids on cattle and sheep. The lowland people were afraid to pursue them into the wood and mountains
Cooking Food
They cooked their food in the open air beside a spring well, on a fire made of timber and brush wood. Heaps of ashes and burned stones may be seen in many town lands even to the present day and indicate the spots where the Fiolach Fiadh were Fiollach-ing the game.
- Informant
- T Horgan
