School: Carron / Carthan (roll number 7573)
- Location:
- Carran, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Muirthille
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0616B, Page 12_032
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Carron / Carthan
- XML Page 12_032
- XML “Old Cahirs”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)of a round shape and there is a great mound of earth around it. It is called "Cahir Mor". There were often lights seen there. There is a very high wall built around it. In the middle of it there is a great heap of stones. There is another cahir in my fathers land but it do not know the name of it. It is a very high cahir, and there are many nice white-thorn trees around it. It is said that there is a black cat inside the cahir, taking care of a crock of gold, but nobody could catch him, and the gold is in an old broken shoe. There is a little green field in the middle of the cahir but nobody cuts the grass, because it is said that the cahir belongs to the fairies. There was a light seen(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Dabhuren
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meggagh West, Co. Clare
