School: Tinateriffe, Cappamore (roll number 7569)
- Location:
- Tinnatarriff, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eibhlin, Bean Uí Riain
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- (continued from previous page)Old Billy Ryan King who lived in Tineteriffe went to erect a mud walled house but every night the walls fell in and at last he had to give up and build the house in another place.
He was building the first house on the "good peoples' path" so it was supposed and they prevented him from doing so by knocking it.The old people here believed that if a house were built on the good peoples path and if the inmates were up after 11 they would be molested.
Any kettle or pot on the fire would be thrown off. Cups would be snatched from their hands and strange noises heard.There was a very old tree, an oak tree growing near Pallasbeg cross. It was supposed to be 500 years old & was called "Stáin Óg". It lived up to 20 years ago and was then knocked when a cottage plot was laid out around it.
