School: Piltown (B.) (roll number 6189)
- Location:
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Maolchaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0842, Page 269
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- (continued from previous page)The top of the tower was never completed. The top of the tower is now to be found in Fiddown graveyard erected over the grave of Mr. John Walshe, who was agent of Belline who was responsible for the erection of the tower. A sequel to building was a great hurling match. A good many men from Tipperary were employed at the building. Those men were from Faucheen and were noted hurlers, so the men made up a hurling match and it was played in Tybroughney in August the 9th 1757. The two teams were Kilkenny and Tipperary. The match was played and Kilkenny won and a few day later it was a matter of fighting and arguing at the tower between the men. When Lord Bessborough heard what was going on, it seems he stopped the work and the building was over for good. Why the top of the tower is over the grave of Walshe is:-
He was an agent and he was a very hard(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Thomas Cuddihy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Clerk
- Address
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
