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School: Ballycumber (C.)

Location:
Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Mrs Fenelon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 304

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  1. Local Place Names

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    "The Captains Hollow"
    On the road leading from Curnafurnish to Boher there is a hollow called "The Captains Hollow". Long ago there lived in Castletown a man naed Captain Armstrong. After his death people said that he used to drive a carriage without any horses up and down the road where this hollow is.
    That is the reason why this place got that particular name.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Sciobol-na-Sagart
    In Killaghantobar is a place known as Scibol-na-Sagart or it is called now The Priests' Barn which according to tradition got it's name from a mass rock where mass was celebrated in the Penal Days.
    In Killaghantobar also is a cross roads known as Carrig-na-huit where a local witch is supposed to have rolled a huge boulder out on the road to prevent the passing of a funeral on its way from Tara to Clonmacnois.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Geraghty
    Gender
    Female