School: Kilcurry, Dundalk (roll number 7177)
- Location:
- Kilcurry, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0664, Page 233
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- The district I live in is Lurgankeel, in the Parish of Faughart and beside the townland of Dungooley. There are ruins of old farmyards and houses here and there.
The following story was told to me by my father Hugh McNamee of the same address.
Richard Drum and Mary his wife and their only son Peter, lived in Lurgankeel long ago. They lived in a house and it fell, and Peter was too young to build it. So Richard made up his mind to build one of garden clay and bushes. Peter mixed clay, and Richard built the house by putting a layer of bushes and then a layer of clay and so on until he had it finished. There was a room and kitchen in it, and the Drum family lived in it for years, until late one night a knock came to his door, and a strange man came in to tell hom to go to "Sgeaginall Bush" and to take another man with him where he would find a crock of gold covered with a slate. So Richard been so greedy took a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sheila Mc Namee
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lurgankeel, Co. Louth
