School: Tunnyduff
- Location:
- Tonyduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cathaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1015, Page 146
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- (continued from previous page)leading from where O'Reilly's Castle stood in Knockbride lake. There was a chapel on this island at one time. An old resident of this district that I knew definitely saw the Blessed Virgin the last time he attended Mass in our Chapel on a Sunday morning. This man had been given out the Rosary for about 40 years in the Chapel before Mass, as was then the custom. Lough Acurry takes its name from a curragh of gold which was hidden in it by the Danes when they were banished from Ireland. It can only be ucovered by getting 6 all white horses chained to it. A man tried to get it once but he had difficulty to get the right horses, as one horse had a few black hairs on its hoof, so he pulled these out but just the curraigh came to the surface a large fish broke the chain attached to this horse and so the curragh of cold sank(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomine Carolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ledonigan, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Mick Carolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ledonigan, Co. Cavan
