School: Timahoe (roll number 14486)
- Location:
- Timahoe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: R. O' Byrne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0831, Page 210
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - One day Pat Lalor, Esker, Timahoe when working for Mr. Davison was digging a grave in the graveyard near the Round Tower in Timahoe.
He came across an underground passage; he knocked a stone out of the top in order to find its depth.
Pat put his hand with a bar of about four feet long down in the hole but when pulling it back he let the bar fall and Mr Davison heard it hit a hard floor.
He though the passage was about 8 feet high.
A man named Joe Lalor who is at present living in Ballinaclough, Timahoe came across an underground passage in Mr. Foyle's field in Cullenagh and is of the opinion that it is the same as that in Timahoe. - Thomas Cosby, Stradbally Hall a protestant gave £50 toward the erection of the Catholic Church in Timahoe and £150 for the church in Stradbally.
