School: Lisdowney, Ballyragget
- Location:
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mheachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0868, Page 120
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- In the penal times some monks lived in Kells in the Co. Kilkenny. There were under the castle in the dungeons hiding from the priest hunters and every day a woman brought them milk. One day she spilled the milk along the path by which she came and by this sign the English were able to find the monks.
- Long ago there lived in Archerstown Co. Leix a man named Mr. Byrne. One day he went to the fair of Ballinakill and his brother and sister told him to bring home a couple of pounds of steak when he sold the cattle. He got drunk after the fair and never thought of the meat until he was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs John Quirke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyconra, Co. Kilkenny
