School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 185a
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“It is said that during the War in 1914.”
It is said that during the War in 1914, Some people living near Dundalk found a real old chalice in the wall of an old castle, when they were about to knock its old ruins. In this chalice it is said that about one dozen Communion Bread and they were turned real black and became crippled up with age. The person who found it didn't want give it up, and he thought he was conceling it as a secret, but never the less he was not because he was seen lifting it up, and putting it under a whisp of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Fintan Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny