their names to "Murphy". A mile and a half from my village a lovely wood is to be seen known as "Gleann Scotín". It is called Gleann Scotín after Queen Scotia who came from Spain with an army of men and landed in "Kenmare Bay" and fought the "Tuata De Danann" at "Gleann Scótin. Queen Scotia was killed and was buried there. Several people have seen it but I haven't seen it yet. You should have a dweller of the place to guide you to it. There are a few houses in the midst of the wood. During the Penial Days people had hedge schools a few hundred yards from my house a hedge school once had been and many went there as Blennerville is thickly populated. It has a population of three-hundred.

About two miles from this school there is a place called Queen Scotia's Glen it is said that Queen Scotia was buried there. Many people go to visit the place. There is a large flat stone with Ogham signs along its edge, which is believed to mark her burial place.
She was the daughter of King Phaorah of Egypt. Her husband's name was Miled. He was killed fighting the Dedannans and she took his place and was killed also. The glen is called Gleann-Scoithín.

still protest that the gold is there guarded by the awful serpent.Hidden away near the Slieve Mish is Gleann Scoithín. Here, Queen Scotia is laid to rest after her term of royal reign. Ireland has received the name "Scotia" in song and story after this lady of royal birth.

When the Israelites were in Egypt, Nial the father of Gadelus (the father of the Gaels) set sail from his native Leythia and landed in Egypt. In Egypt Gadelus was bitten by a serpant on the back of the neck. His father Nial applied to Moses to cure him and although he was a pagan, Moses consented and cured him and a great big spot appeared on the neck of Gadelus where the snake bit him and Moses prophesised that his decendants would inhabit a Green Island in the Western Sea where no venomous snakes would abound. The reptiles that St.Patrick banished out of Ireland were not poisonous but great monsters something like crocodiles.
After the death of Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, Gadelus, son of Nial, son of the King of Leythia, grew up and became a great military leader in Egypt. he was very successful in several expeditions against the natives of Abisenia. He married the daughter of Pharaoh,the princess Scotia who bore him two sons Haber and Amergin.
But remembering the prophesy of Moses, he had a great longing to possess the Green Island. So quitting Egypt he landed in Thrace. In this place the princess Scotia was delivered of a son called Ir. He left Thrace and after travelling through many lands came to an island called Gothna in the British Sea. In this land Scotia gave him another son Solpa. He now sailed for the land of the Picts now Scotland. After plundering the erst land of the Picts he sailed away and landed in Biscay in Spain

The Indians
There is a rock in séan báile in Culleens, Co. Sligo. There was an Indian chief named Red Cloud, he had a son named Red Foot; Red Foot died, and he was buried under the rock.
About five thousand years ago the Indians brought stone axes, flint knives and arrow heads with them to Ireland. Some of them are found now and again. There was a tribe of people called the Mick Mack Indians of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia was the first name Ireland had. Dr. Douglas Hyde went into an Indian's hut on the banks of Lake Superior. He had a conversation with the Indian. The Indian told him a story about his ancestors for thousands of years back. Some years later when Dr. Douglas Hyde was in the west of Roscommon, he met a man there, who told him the very same story word for word as the Indian told it, and said it was about his generations. Some say that the Indians were the first people to live in Ireland, and that they

rode madly on. Her aim was to jump the glen, but she underestimated her horse-power, and the horse tumbled into the middle of the glen, killing the gallant queen, and breaking its own neck. The Milesians having seen the wonderful courage of their queen gave battle to the Tuatha De Dananns, and defeated them. The battle is known as the battle of Slieve Mish. In the evening they returned and buried the queen in the Glen. This glen has since been called - Glen Scoteen, or Scotia's Glen. Her grave is there to day and may be found by walking along the river which runs through the Glen, until a "meeting" is reached. A little up this little [?] may be seen and huge stone with many strange markings on it. This stone marks the resting place of the famous queen Scotia.In the same neighbourhood is another glen called Glenofaisi, also called after another Milesian named Fas.

Na deoraidhthe a tháinig go Ciarraí Luachra timpal na bliadhna 400 R.C. do thugadar leó teanga na h-Éireann agus eólas ar iarann.Cé go bhfuil ainmneacha abhann ABHANN agus a SLIABH sa duthaigh níos ársa ná an Gaedhilg teasbáineann sé seo go raibh daoine ann sar a dtáinig na Ceiltigh (e.g. Mis. Riagh. Muisire. srl.) Tár éis teacht idtír dos na Ceiltigh fé'n mbainrioghain Scotia in Inbhear Scéine do throideadar cath i nGleann Scoithín - (7 míle taobh thiar theas dinn) - in-ar marbhuigheadh an bainrioghan Scotia. Tá leac mhór sleibhe san áit in-ar cuireadh í
"Do tógadh a liagh ós a leacht agus do

There are many hidden treasures in Ireland. There is one hidden in "Gleann Scothín". It was buried with Queen Scotia. The things that were hid were put into a box.
Some people say that, necklaces of gold, rings and bracelets of gold, worn by Queen Scotia, were put into the box and were buried with the queen. More people said that it was money that was buried with the Queen.
Fifteen years ago four men went to the grave and started digging the ground. As they were digging, a guard saw them and he summoned them. Ever since then, there is a man minding the place.
If you were seen digging near the grave you would be summoned.

but failing to subdue them she fled to the stone and with a loud cry went underneath it. All the men were badly wounded and soon after reaching their homes they died but the woman never appeared there afterwards. She is said to have been Queen Scotia who was killed in battle there when the Milesians first came to Ireland. Her motive for killing all these people was to revenge her death.

About three hundred years ago there lived a man named Christopher Moore. He owned a trading vessel and used to trade in meal and flour. He landed in the Churchpool outside Inniskeel with a cargo of meal. He sold it to a man named Cafferty who used to sell it out in small quantities.
Cafferty had one daughter named Ellen and she got married to Christopher who was a native of Drogheda. He made his living by selling meal.
At that time there lived in Woodhill a landlord named Nesbitt. Nesbitt was in great want of money and he asked Christopher to go to his brother in Nova Scotia and get some for him. Christopher undertook to go on this errand. After a long and perilous journey he arrived in Nova Scotia. He got a trunkful of gold from Nesbitt's brother. When he was coming home again the sailors lifted the trunk on to the ship and they knew that it was gold that was in it because it was heavy. The sailors were making up between themselves to throw Christopher overboard. Christopher heard them saying

There is a rock in séan bháile in Cullens Co Sligo. There was an Indian chief named Red Cloud, he had a son named Red Foot. Red Foot died and he was buried under the rock.
About five thousand years ago the Indians brought stone axes, flint knives and arrow heads with them to Ireland. Some of them are found now and again.
There was a tribe of people called the Mick Mack Indians of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia was the first name Ireland had.
Dr. Douglas Hyde went into an Indian's hut on the banks of Lake Superior. The Indian told him a story about his ancestors for thousand of years back. Some years later when Dr. Douglas Hyde was in the west of Roscommon he met a man there who told him the very same story word for word as the Indian told it, and said it was about his generations.
Some say that Indians were the first people to live in Ireland and that they came from the west. The Indians were wrongly called Firbolg Fomorians an Dedannans.
When the Milesians came from Spain to

There is a monument in the district called the Gullaine stone. This is how it got its name. Long ago when Queen Scotia was building a castle at Gleann Scotínn she sent her men out in search of square stones. She had a bell in her house and when she rang the bell it could be heard over the length and breadth of Ireland. Then her men knew they were in danger. They got a stone in Lerrig. When her men heard the bell they threw the stone away and ran to the castle. They never returned to it

In olden days a woman appeared, near Queen Scotia's Grave, which is south of Tralee, after night fall. She was very fierce and strong and always attacked those who passed by in the darkness. She strangled everyone, even the strongest men round about, and left them there lying dead on the ground. The people became terrified and one night a group of men gathered together and agreed on going to the grave on that night. They had taken their places round the grave before dark and when the sun had gone down the woman came up from underneath the stone singing a song in some language which they could not understand. When she saw them she immediately attacked them

There was an old school in a small field owned by Mr. Ned Ryan, Jessefield, Kilmanagh, Co. Kilkenny. Mr. Doran taught there. He taught English, Irish and Arithmetic. He went to different houses every day for his dinner; some days he went to Coak's and other days he went to Walshe's. He had stakes driven down in the ground and switches woven in them to separate the boys from the girls. One day when he returned after dinner he found the division knocked down and he asked the children, "Was it a miraculous ram came from Novia-Scotia to knock down my academy".

There is a hill in the West of Tuam about five miles from the town and it is called 'Castlehacket'. On one side is a hazel and on the other is a fur wood. But on the top of it is a lot of stones and under the stones 'Queen Meave' is buried (?) It was the custom at that that everyone that would go to the grave side would bring a stone and leave it on top of the grave. That is why all the stones are on top of the hill. Beside the grave is a ruin of an old tower where the Danes used to fight. [Note: Dr Costello, Tuam, says this is not true at all, He says that Queen Basser is buried there and says that place is called 'Bassarach'. He says also that this queen was sister to Scotia, one of the Tuatha De Danann buried in Kerry, between Tralee and Kiloorgin on the north side of dingle bay.Fionnbar was the leader of the fairy host that lived here. Some real battles that took place live vaguely in the memory of the people but are mixed up with the fairies. Finall, the name of Castlehackett in Irish is called 'Cruach' or 'Cruic Meagh'as if to show that Maeve was buried here. But Dr Costello says 'Meagh' is Mágh- a plain. The plane extend to Loc Corrib.

Lord Forbes, in the Peerage of Scotland. Sir Arthur Knight, settled in Ireland in 1620, and was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1628. He was called in a duel at Hamburg whither he had accompanied his regiment, of which he was Lieut.-Colonel, to assist the great Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Arthur, who jealously maintained the Royal cause in Scotland, and at the Restoration was made a Privy Councillor of Ireland and Marshal of the Army. He was nominated one of the Lords Justices of Ireland in 1671, and again in 1673, when he was created Baron Clanshugh and Viscount Granard, and Earl of Granard in 1684. George, sixth Earl, was created a Peer of Great-Britain in 1806, by the title of Baron Granard of Castle-Donnington, in the county of Leicester. The seat of this Noble Family is Castle-Forbes, in the county of Longford near the village of Newtownforbes. Population of Granard in 1831, 2069.
Written by
Michael Finnegan,
Std VI

When the priest inquired about the occurrence the master replied thus:-
At first I thought
It was a miraculous ram
that came from Nova Scotia
To burn down my Academy
Thus ended a once famous academy of learning of which the old people used to speak so highly.
O'Doran wrote or translated prophecies (perhaps Colmkilles's prophecies). The book was called "Doran's Prophecy". It was at Hayden's of Kilbrahan. It then was taken by the late Canon Murphy P.P. Kimanagh

A poem composed by Thomas McLoughlin Selton, Drumkeeran who now resides in Scotland. The subject of this poem is "The hills above the town."Let poets sing of beauty-spots, in foreign climes so grand;
Of towering rocky mountains, or the scene in Switzerland;
Of babbling brooks and shady nooks, which are the Saxon's pride;
And Scotia's praise of lofty peaks, and chains (?) of lakes beside;
But for a healthy holiday, there's none but will agree;
The hills around Drumkeeran, for beauty hold the key;
Wild nature here sure has the sway with streamlets rushing down;
While white-washed homes enhance the view of the hills above the town.
IIIf you want a warm welcome then knock at any door
From Litter to the colliery there's failteach there go leór

Cathair Conroi
To the north of our parish lie the Sliabh Mish mountains, where in the early times the Tuatha de Dananns and the Milesians fought for possession of Ireland. It is said that the attendant of Queen Scotia was a very beautiful maiden named Mish, and the mountain afterwards was called Sliabh Mish.
One of the highest peaks of Sliabh Mish is Cathair Conroi about which the following legend has been told..
Long ago, there lived a prince - Conguilbon in the north of Ireland. Anxious to procure a wife, he journeyed eastwards and at last reached an island, in which he found a castle surrounded by magic wheels. In the castle was a beautiful princess, but Conguillon was helpless as he was unskilled in Magic. He was about to return for a magician but one of his soldiers offered his services, stating that he was practiced in magic.
Conguillon then asked his name, to which the young man replied - "I am Conroi, from the South of Ireland". Conguillon then ordered Conroi to stop at the wheels, offering him his choice of all within.
Conroi then ordered all the men to move nine paces backwards - when the wheels immediately stopped.
Upon entering, Conroi claimed the princess as his reward. Upon their return to Ireland Conroi

Old people in this district still talk of the ghost which haunted the pass of
Gleann Scoheen or Scotias Glen
which contains the grave of Queen Scotia, on the Slieve Mish mountain.
There is not a shadow of a doubt that such a spirit haunted this lonely pass.
The spirit would come in various shapes, and not alone struck terror into the hearts of the people for miles around, but actually killed some of them. At one time it would appear as a cow, at another time as a horse, sometimes again as a sow surrounded by a litter of bonhams, but always it changed into a fierce and terrible woman.
Sometimes people escaped her wrath by being very civil and obliging, but others lost their lives on the spot, or got a severe beating from the effects of which they died. Let us take for instance the case of a man named Bryan Connor, a native of Tralee.
Being out late on business and in a hurry home he had no option but to ride his horse through this pass (it being a shortcut through the mountain from Castlemaine to Tralee). Seeing a feeble old woman on the road he offered her a ride on horseback. The old woman instantly sprang on the horses's back to the surprise of the rider.
They had not gone very far when the horse