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School: Leixlip (C.) (roll number 2345)

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Leixlip, Co. Kildare
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Mrs. Harty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0773, Page 282

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    Old ruins
    St. Catherines Convent is situated in the Black Avenue Leixlip, and about one hundred yards away in the middle of a wood is the ruins of St Catherine's Chapel.
    One day St. Catherine was praying in a field and she struck a rock and the rock turned into a well. Then she dug a hole and put water in it and she said that it would be a cure for sore eyes.
    When Captain Vesey came to live in St. Catherines he put a pump beside the well and he said that no one was to use the well water but when the pump was up he could not use the water from it.
    Beside the Chapel is a tunnel which leads Castletown it was made in peneal times for the priests to hide in when
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Price
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Tom Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    73
    Address
    Leixlip, Co. Kildare