School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rinn
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- (continued from previous page)him not to be talking about it. When he died he (he) left all his money to his sons.
- How the rock known as the "Blackman" derived its name. Lieutenant Spratt a naval officer was accustomed to visit his brother who lived at Ballyanihan House. During one of his visits he painted with tar on the rock the figure of a sailor dancing a hornpipe. For very many years the figure remained on the rock and in course of time it lost its resemblance of a sailor and became known as the "Blackman".This rock was so called to distinguish it from the many other rocks in the locality.
