School: Killummod
- Location:
- Killummod, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Bhioscáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 256
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- (continued from previous page)they looked at the hole it was closed and a large stone over it.Story.
A man named Hanly lived in Cornehed once upon a time. One evening he was in the Killuran grave yard and he saw a cross and as he wanted a whetting stone for his sythe he said he would come that night and break an arm off the cross. That night he came with a hammer to break the arm off the cross. When he was breaking off the arm he looked back at his own house to see it in flames. He ran home but his house was not on fire. He came again and saw his house on fire, he went home and saw no fire. He went the third time determined to bring the stone. He brought the stone. When he went home he found his house burned to the ground. And since that no one dared to interfere with the cross.
- Collector
- John Grimes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lodge, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Nicholas Grimes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Lodge, Co. Roscommon
