School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 258
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- There is a huanted room in a house about a half mile down the road. The devil, in the form of a black dog, is there every night and bark three times. The room is now filled with cement.
- The Gallows Well is a well on Barrack hill. There is a big tree over the well on which people were supposed to be hanged on olden times.there is an old well in the wood at the end of Kilkenny St. which is known as Buck's Well. There were supposed to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Bill Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
