School: Baile Caisleáin an Róistigh (B.) (roll number 14107)
- Location:
- Castletownroche, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Luineacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0372, Page 041
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- There was a celebrated druid living near Mainistear Fhearmaighe, who had two daughters Cliodhnha and Aoibhill. He himself was called An Draoi Ruadh.
A chieftain in the neighbourhood named O'Caoimh used often visit them at their palace, and was very much in love with the younger daughter Aoibhill, who was very beautiful. Both daughters were comely, but the younger was the handsomer.
Cliodhna became jealous of her sister, and determined to get rid of her in some way. She consulted her nurse, and they made a fire in a remote part of the palace, and prepared a potion over a tripod. One of the ingredients was human hair. This was given in her food to the younger daughter and she at once began to pine away and get ugly.
At last she fell into a slumber resembling death, and her father and everyone mourned her as dead, and she was buried in a vault underneath the palace
That night the sister Cliodhna and the nurse opened the vault, and took the girl to the caves at Castlecor. They there asked her(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Pádraig Ó Luinneacháin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Príomhoide
- Address
- Castletownroche, Co. Cork
