School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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- (continued from previous page)Catholics because they had a bishop known as bishop Plunkett.
The kitchen in Mrs. Cameron's house was a chapel a long time ago in Plunketts time and the priest that used to say Mass there was Father Secfield.
These Plunkett's had a famous racehorse and he took a very high leap in Phoenix park in Dublin and he was rode by a man named Kenny, and the Plunketts thought so much about him that they buried his head in the dining room in Mt Plunkett house
George Plunkett's brother Christopher Plunkett had a daughter and when her father died; some time afterwards when she was going to bed she thought she saw her father looking out the window so she ordered the window to be closed up and it never was opened until Mr Cameron opened it some time ago.
A girl named Joan Richards was a servant girl in Mt Plunkett house for the present Mrs Cameron. One night when she was going to bed, it is said something(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Charles Fuery
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Roscommon
