School: Droichead an Chláir (B.). Clarecastle
- Location:
- Clarecastle, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Háinlighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 328
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- (continued from previous page)he also sang the chorus but sang so badly that the fairies put another hump on the top of the hump he had already.
- William Roughan Cregaunahilla tells the following story. He said that he saw it happening in his youth on the fair green near the Catholic Church Clarecastle. A crowd of men amongst them being a simpleton named John Cullinan who used travel from place to place was put up to say when they saw the protestant minister Rev Mr Long passing by to his church on the hill. There he goes along with his bible under his arm. Go long that you dirty ass and follow me to mass. The minister is supposed to be converted.
Patrick Roughan - Collector
- Patrick Roughan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William Roughan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creggaunnahilla, Co. Clare
