School: Claonar agus Carraig, Cill an Mhuilinn
- Location:
- Killavullen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Síothcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0372, Page 280
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- In the townland of Annakisha North about two miles from Doneraile village and about six miles from Mallow there stands on the side of a by-road a very large old ash tree named Crannahulla. Long ago in Clenor castle, about a mile east from the tree, lived a beautiful girl named Saint Cranath. She was so beautiful that she was spoken of at home and abroad. A certain Munster Prince who had heard of her great beauty made up his mind to marry her. He sent his soldiers to Clenor to bring the girl to him by fair or foul means. But Cranath fled from her father’s castle when she heard that the soldiers were come for her. She travelled west in the Doneraile direction for about a mile and suddenly she understood that ’twas her great beauty was the cause of all her misfortune. She determined there and then to destroy her beauty and catching hold of one of her eyes she plucked it out and cast it on fence. Immediately a big strong ash tree sprang up in the spot where here eye had fallen. The tree is to-day in the same place. What is locally regarded as Cranath’s eye is plainly to be seen on the butt of the tree. Strangely(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Denis O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Annakisha, Co. Cork
