School: Mullach na Cille (roll number 14649)

Location:
Muileann na Cille, Co. Chill Chainnigh
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Chéadagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0850, Page 014

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    brother George , who is now in America, went there with seven or eight other young fellown in the night and they started digging. They dug away until they came to a big slab of stone and then they thought they heard chains rattling so they took to their heels. The next day they closed in the hole and no on ever opened it since or before.
    "Mid the hills of Ballyreddy
    Overlooking the winding Nore
    There once stood a stately mansion
    Famous in the days of yore."
    (Extract from a poem about the De Freynes)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. One day a man named Michael Curran was rooting up a tree in Woodstock. It was in the daytime and what did he find but a pan full of water - red water - and a big eel in the water. He covered it up again with clay and left it there.
    If it had been in the night the eel would be the man that was minding the money and the water in the pan would be gold
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. seánra
      1. creidiúint (~391)
        1. creidiúint choiteann (~2,535)
          1. ór i bhfolach (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Johanna Conway
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    11
    Address
    Gleann an Phíopa, Co. Chill Chainnigh
    Collector
    Stasia Conway
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Gleann an Phíopa, Co. Chill Chainnigh
    Informant
    John Conway
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gleann an Phíopa, Co. Chill Chainnigh