School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Staic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 213
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- (continued from previous page)Cloca Óir." It is thought that in this the remains of Ferdinad is buried. If anyone stirred the stones it is thought he would die. There was a priest in Attymon about year 1837 he was called Fr James McDermot. He did not believe that if anyone stirred the stones and threw them in to a field near by and he was found dead a half an hour later. Near the village of Temple there is a field in which there is a heap of stones. It is thought that every child that died during the famine 1846 was buried there. A head-stone is written in ogham writing and the people never know what it is.
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