1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Soran, Longford

School: Soran, Longford (roll number 14683)

Location:
Soran, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Wilfred O'Callaghan
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0759, Page 192

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0759, Page 192

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: Soran, Longford
  2. XML Page 192
  3. XML “Seanchas”

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. Seanchas

    Share Share Post
    About fifty years ago there lived a man and a girl in a small wooden hut near Granard town. The man used to go out to shoot game on the mountains in West Meath. He used to have a hut for himself when he would go out to shoot.
    This time he went and it was in the summer, but anyhow the girl set out on her horse to join him shooting. Night fell dark about ten o'clock and it began to rain. By this time she was beside an old church that there was no service in for many years.
    There was a big heap of old stuff built in the
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Gilna
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Soran, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Joseph Cosgrove
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    69
    Address
    Soran, Co. Longford