School: Monaghan (Christian Bros.) (roll number 16723)
- Location:
- Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ó Floinn
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- (continued from previous page)bushes he could hear roars of laughter coming from the Fort. The same man when digging up a 'lone bush' near the Fort found a little horse shoe. He said it was a fairy horse shoe. This shoe he kept to the end of his days. He also believed that it was the fairies he heard laughing.
- There is a castle in Coon, Co Kilkenny known in Irish History as Caisleán Fheidhlim Ó Néill. This castle stood in a state of great preservation until 1830 when the stones were used to build Coon Chapel.
In the district lived a miser who was immensely wealthy as he felt death coming he got a man named James Urdell to promise him that he would guard his gold dead or alive. That night Urdell was shot and people say that(continues on next page) - Collector
- M. O' Dwyer
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Milltown, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Chief Super. G. O' Dwyer
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
