School: Lemanaghan, Ballycumber
- Location:
- Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Máire Galvin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 039
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- (continued from previous page)in the bottomless ship named "Jane and Margaret". Their father dreamed the night they went that they were drowned. He awoke and told the mother they they would never see Bridget or John again. He said he saw them both going down in each others arms. After events proved he was right.Its said that a man deserted out of the British armey in the year 1800 and took home to Ballydaly an army charger and him him in a cave nearby until the arrow with wihcih he was marked grew out of his hooves; that horse ployed in Ballydaly afterwards.
The man or the horse was never found by the Authorities. The man that fired the short to release Kelly and Deasy in the British van in Manchester was reared in Ballydaly by the name of Melvin. Ballydaly is both hilly and boggy. There is a wood in the bog called Doreen-na-meel. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Márie Ní Chuinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballydaly, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- John Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballydaly, Co. Offaly
