School: Cnoc na gCóirne
- Location:
- Cnoc na gCoirneach, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Seán Ó Coinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0484, Page 226
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- The "Sliotar" was made of wood covered with leather or basil.The hurleys were made of furze bushes that had a twist at the roots.John Histon (Direen)
- Informant
- John Hilton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Doirín, Co. Luimnigh
- The spite and bad feeling between certain districts in this parish date back to old football matches which being played without a referee often caused fightingPatrick Dalton (Knocknagorna)
- Informant
- Patrick Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cnoc na gCoirneach, Co. Luimnigh
- There is a large stone resting on three smaller ones of Limestone in Clounleharde; it is called "The Giants Table" and it is said that the giants used come together and feast there.
- Informant
- John Sheahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cnoc na gCoirneach, Co. Luimnigh
- There are numerous big rocks and stones in fields round about the quarry in Direen which are pointed out as "casts" from the quarry by the giants who lived there.
- Informant
- Mary B. Sheahan
- Gender
- Female
- Under many of the giants tables huge skeletons and enormous bones have been found so that all of them were not feasting places.
- Informant
- Mary B. Woulfe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Doirín, Co. Luimnigh
