School: Johnstown (roll number 877)
- Location:
- Baile Sheáin, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Miss H.C. Hickie
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 129
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- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Baile an Stafardaigh, Co. na Mí
- Two skulls are to be seen on the stones of the collapsed vault in the centre of the graveyard.
Miss Kelly says that they often pushed them far in through the stones and covered them.
However, they would be on the surface again and nobody could account for how they got there. - An adjoining propery to Staffordstown Ho. was owned by a Charlie Rothwell whose daughter was married to a Butler.
The story goes that after his death he used to be seen riding a horse round the neighbourhood.
