School: Scoil na Móna Fliche (Moanflugh) (roll number 10272)
- Location:
- An Muine Fliuch, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Deasmhumhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0326, Page 021
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- From Mrs Desmond (54), Coolacoosane
Taken down by Cornelius Desmond (12), Coolacoosane 29 March 1938
Once a Protestant landlord named Seán Ruadh was building a great mansion near Kanturk, and no man could work there unless his name was John. If a Catholic happened to work there he would be killed in the evening and the mortar would be mixed with his blood. One day a priest was passing and he declared that the court would be only a house for crows. It was going to be roofed with glass, and all the people around had to go for the glass with their horses (to Cork). The Protestant went to meet them, and on his way the horse lost a shoe. He went to a forge, and the smith had no iron but a piece of a gun. When the smith reddened it, it exploded and killed the landlord. All the men heeled their glass into the river, and the words of the priest came true.
- Collector
- Cornelius Desmond
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Mrs Desmond
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
