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School: Effin (B.), Ráthluirc (roll number 8333)

Location:
Effin, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Hannáin
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  1. How the Hill of Ardpatrick was Formed

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    There once lived an old witch near the Galtee mountains and she said that they were too low. One day she came down to Ballingaddy with an ass and cart for a load of earth to make the mountains higher.
    She took a load of earth near where the chapel is now. When she was going up near Ardpatrick the car heeled and the earth fell out there is the hill where it fell and there is a graveyard on its summit and there is a lake where she took the earth.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    P. O' Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballingaddy, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Ned Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Ballingaddy, Co. Limerick