School: Cnoc Bríde (1)
- Location:
- Knockbride, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- There is a giant's grave on Callaghans hill, which is covered with a very large stone and a lone bush growing beside it.
There is a cave on our rock. The priests said mass in the olden times in this cave. The priests kept the vestments in the cave every night.
There still remains a lone bush about fifteen perches from Anna fort. There were a lot of horse shoe nails driven into the bush. It was a cure for a toothache.
- Collector
- Rose Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Knockbride, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Cabe
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- In the townland of Rebawn overlooking Killann old church is growing a tree very much like a whitethorn but has thorns on it exactly like a gooseberry. It is growing on the outer bark which is of a silver colour. When this is scraped off it(continues on next page)
