School: Baile Mór Síl Anmchadha (Laurencetown)
- Location:
- Laurencetown, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cogaidhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0055, Page 0175
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- (continued from previous page)midnight travellers have witnessed the self same encounter between the black and white ghosts.
- The "Old Abbey" was in Ireland's Golden Age the home of monks - a branch house of the great monastery of Clonfert. Clonfert and the Old Abbey is connected by a tunnel which was supposed to have been cut in the Penal Days. A chain of keys is supposed to represent the number of Abbots in Clonfert and the Old Abbey combined. Lisanacody is also connected to Redmount by a tunnel in which the Catholics of the district used to hear Mass during the Penal Days. One old woman used to reside there and(continues on next page)
