School: Killashee, Longphort (roll number 12515)

Location:
Killashee and Aghakeeran, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Seán Ó Muireadhaigh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0755, Page 186

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0755, Page 186

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Killashee, Longphort
  2. XML Page 186
  3. XML “Miscellaneous - Stories of Clough”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. There is a well called 'Cloree' and it is said it cures all kinds of runnings and sores. The parish of Clough gets its name from this well, which is beside the Church-yard of Killcomack. There is also a well in Terlicken which is called St. Patricks well. It is said he drank water out of it and there is a stone beside it with a foot-print which old folk said is his foot print.
    On our land in Clough there is an interesting fort. It is
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eva Rollins
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lyneen, Co. Longford