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School: Kellystown, Dunleer (roll number 3154)

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Kellystown, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chathail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 156

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    “Near our home there are many old ruins with which strange stories are connected.”

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    Near our home there are many old ruins with which strange stories are connected. The red house Clogherhead is one place. There in the penal days a priest was saying Mass. There was a large congregation but there were no watchers. Suddenly just after the Consecration a cry was heard, the house was surrounded, the English soldiers went in and priest and all were murdered.
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    “When St Feckin was looking for a place on which to build a church he went around on a white horse...”

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