School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)
- Location:
- An Scairt, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rinn
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- XML “The Lodge”
- XML “The Golden Glen”
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- Collector
- Philomena Fox
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Michael Ahearne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Baile Átha an Mhaide, Co. Chorcaí
- Long ago the Golden Glen was very beautiful. There was eight acres of land it under orchards which contained nothing but apple trees. Then a man named Captain (Manersar) Mansergh rooted those apples trees. Some ash, chestnut and beech trees remain in a different place.
- The O'Sheas lived in Rockmills long ago. They were stone cutters and they worked in a quarry on the rock near the Funcheon.
They made head stones, and many other things made of stone. Mr O'Shea had three sons, and the four of them used(continues on next page)