School: Srónaill (Shronell) (roll number 15008)

Location:
Shronell, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0580, Page 174

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0580, Page 174

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    drink it. Pieces of cloth are fixed one to the bush when the rounds are finished.
    People say that a band of gypsies were passing by and one of the gypsies washed a child in the well and the well disappeared and came up in another place. A fish is supposed to inhabit the well.
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  2. About three quarters of a mile from Lattin to Shronell there stands the ruins of an old court belonging to Damer. It is so long built that there are only a part of it standing yet. The south wall and the west wall are there. He brought over men from Scotland to build it He had to build houses outside the court for them to live in.
    But some of them went back to Scotland. Damer was a candle maker, he came
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice Humphries
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lattin, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs O' Dwyer
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballycohy, Co. Tipperary