School: Myshall (C.)
- Location:
- Myshall, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 252
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- Long, long ago there lived a witch named Moll McCann on the top of Mount Leinster, in a cave called Moll Rock. She kept her treasure in another place called Moll Churn.
This witch was a very cross old lady and she had a great objection to the Catholic Church in Myshall, and one day she made up her mind to destroy it.
She got a very large stone and carried it to the top of the mountain in her arms. Then she threw it at the church, but it fell in the graveyard a couple of yards away from the church.
She threw it with such a great force that she fell on it herself and broke it and the track of her knee is to be seen in the stone even to the present day.
- Collector
- Maureen Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Myshall, Co. Carlow
