School: Clareen, Birr

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   St. Kieran on his way to this place passed through Coolisheal. He came along the road that now leads from Roscrea to Boheraphuca past Boheraphuca chapel and over Aghagurty Bridge - then on to Loftus Bridge then over a road (that is now a kind of carway) on to the top of Bellhill. When he arrived at Bellhill the bell which St. Patrick had given him rang out. A hawthorn bush marks the spot where the bell rang. The bush is small, and never grows any bigger. The field in which Bellbush is belongs to Philip Pilkington, Bellhill.

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   Another graveyard was in Churchpark field, near Killyon Bridge. Bones were often dug up there.

   Larry Molloy, Killyon.

   

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   About 60 years ago or more a furnace was being put into the Protestant Church. The men were digging outside the Church when they came on a very large skull and a cross and gold chain. Jonathan Bennetts men were in charge of the

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