School: Rath (roll number 5391)
- Location:
- Rath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Miss Palmer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 064
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Again the owner found another horse choked in the stable.
The third week they found a powerfully built wall in the moat.
On going out another morning a cow was found dead, so the owner stopped digging immediately and abandoned the idea of ever looking for what was inside it, as he then believed it was unlucky to touch it.
The story goes that there is an underground passage to a church nearby which was a Catholic church in olden times.
- Informant
- Patrick Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Street, Co. Westmeath
