School: Cill Daighnéain
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Bhuachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 365
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“Long, when, ago when the penal laws were in Ireland. ...”
Long, long, ago when the penal laws were in Ireland, the English were ruling over us. The soldiers were killing all the young men. I am now going to tell you one story. There is a place in our town land named Seans Cill. There was an old castle there. Near the castle there lived a shoe maker. There were seven great giants in the castle. This is the way they hid. They had a tunnerl made under ground from the road. The soldiers were looking for them so the shoe maker told the story on them. He asked(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Linehan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kildinan, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Connery
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kildinan, Co. Cork