School: Béal Átha hUbhla (C.) (roll number 3998)
- Location:
- Ballyhooly, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chaoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0372, Page 398
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- KilmoreKilmore is situated on the south side of Ballyhooly on a high hill on the townland of Ballymaclaurance.
It is an acre in area.
It is surrounded by a furze fence.
There is no ruin to be seen only the fence.
There is a hole in the middle in which there was a graveyard long ago.
Children that were not baptised were buried there.There is a large room under ground which is twenty feet long, fifteen feet wide and nineteen feet high.
It is ten feet under the ground.
The walls and ceiling are made of stone.
There is a stairs made of flags going down into the room.
There is an old road leading to the fort.
It was opened thirty years ago and it was found that there an underground tunnel over to Killathy graveyard and another one to Mrs Mahony's farm.
We are not certain about the tunnel to Mrs Mahony's.Long ago a man lived in Millvale.
He had a brother in England who died.
The corpse was brought to Cork and buried in Kilmore.
One night late his brother had a dream.
A ghost came to him in the form of a light.
It said to him to go and take the corpse as unbaptised children were buried(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Breda Roche
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymaclawrence, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Michael Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballymaclawrence, Co. Cork
