School: Kilteel, Naas (roll number 3925)
- Location:
- Kilteel Lower, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Nualláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0773, Page 409
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Cattle and horses were sent to the hills for the summer grazing, and when they came down, the sheep were brought up.
There are the remains of a sweat house in the castle grounds, near it is a circle of trees.
Keoghs had a cure for rash by touching it with blood dropped from their finger. A man named Hill could cure a burn by licking it. He is said to have got this power because he had seen a ghost. He daw the ghost of the man who had been hanged for informing in Sinnots yard.
Swift is the only name of any local hedge school master. I have heard he taught in bodestown and carried on the school in his own house.(continues on next page)
