School: Derinturn, Carbury (roll number 2169)
- Location:
- Derrinturn, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhistéil
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- Bríd de Búrca. Coonough stories told by her father
1. Some years ago when a man was ploughing in a field in Coonough he turned up the skeleton of a man with a pike stuck through his chest. He was put down again deeper. It was noticed that before he was dug up nothing would grow from where he was found for some perches all round. Old people say that a man was murdered there long ago.2. There is a ruin of a very tall castle in Mylerstown near Carbury. It looks as if it would fall at the least blast of wind, but(continues on next page)