School: Coill Sailighe (roll number 4855)
- Location:
- Kilsallagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Ghiobáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138, Page 243
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- (continued from previous page)They were not allowed to spread Irish to to learn it. Mr Grady was the master for this district.
- There is a fort in Kilsallagh. There is said to be treasures hidden in it. No person could go down in it or if they did they would never come up. It is never tilled. A man built a hen house on it. Before he got up in the morning all the hens were crowing outside his door and he could not sleep. When he got up in the morning the hen house was knocked. The man brought the stones and he built the house away from it and the hens did not come out again. There was money stolen from a man named Conway. It was a sum of £80. The men belonged to his own parish(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilsallagh Lower, Co. Mayo
