School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)

Location:
Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0244

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    lying there. And it is over grown with weeds and is honeycombed with rabbits burrows.
    The Kylehawn is a old place where people use to be buried a long time ago. Coulitin and Stephen Branann was buried in it. Coulitin and his wife and tow sons liven in the north there was a protestant woman living near them and she was a very nice woman she was comng in often to see them.
    She came in three times one day she came in to the woman and she asked nothing she came again and again and she asked nothing of the woman and when she came in the third time the woman said to her that there should be something wrong with her and she told her after a long time not to be in the place and not to stop anywhere only to stay going or if they didn't go they would be killed so they stayed going and came here and lived up above near Hickeys in the
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Katie Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Loughatorick North, Co. Galway