School: Buirgheas Uí Chatháin (B.) (roll number 4130)
- Location:
- Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Gáirnéar
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“There is a castle in Lisquillabeen Kilbarron by the name of Thade's castle.”
There is a castle in Lisquillabeen Kilbarron by the name of Thade's castle. It is so called because the man who owned the land on which the castle is built name was Thade Gleeson. This man dreamt three nights one after the other that there was a fortune waiting for him on a bridge outside the city of London. He went to London. The first two days he went around looking for work but he could not get any. On the third day he walked outside the city until he came to a bridge. He leaning over the bridge when a man came up to him and asked him to know what brought him to London. Thade told him all. "Well said the man I dreamt three nights one after the other that about(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Seymour
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Michael Lawlor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sragh, Co. Tipperary