School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 167
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- (continued from previous page)there is another. There are about six big mounds of earth. It is said to have been an old coal mine which was closed in while the men were at work and killed them all. It is said that pounding is heard there every night. The old people say that it is the men coming back to finish the work they were at when they were killed.
- In Chatsworth there is an old ruin on the land of Mr. Moore. It has an old well in the middle of it and a big tree growing over it, it is said it was a church built by St. Patrick. When(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Fintan Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
