School: Ceathrú na Manistreach, Elphin
- Location:
- Abbeycartron, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Pádraig
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- (continued from previous page)"whoever goes in first lives the longest".
It is unlucky if the bride visits her old home within a month of her marriage.
- A horse skin full of gold is supposed to be hidden in Kiltrustan under a bush. It was hidden there by a highwayman named O'Hara who was hanged in Roscommon about a hundred years ago.
On the morning of his execution he asked if there was any one present from Kiltrustan, as he wished to tell where the gold was hidden.
No Kiltrustan man could be found in time so O'Hara was hanged without(continues on next page)
