School: Kilmessan (B.) (roll number 4210)
- Location:
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian S. Pléimeann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0691, Page 100
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- (continued from previous page)It is supposed to be haunted. Once a man was passing through the wood at midnight. The next day he said he saw a white man fall from the top of a tree and disappear into the ground.
- There was a man named Carolan who used to go around the district saying poems The people called him 'Carolan The Poet'. He used to take a great deal of drink. One day he went to the parish priest of Trim for alms. Carolan knocked on the door and Father Baine came and opened it. he asked Carolan what did he want. Carolan stood in the doorway and said:Now Father Baine your very mean(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William Swan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ringlestown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Joseph Swan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ringlestown, Co. Meath
