School: Mullinavat Convent
- Location:
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Lorcán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0850, Page 239
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- (continued from previous page)relative would place a stone at the foot of a large ash tree which is growing there and that is how it got its name.
- Very many years ago a crowd of men were drinking in "Mullinavat". There was a bet for the man that would go up to Kilbeacon church and bring down a skull. One man offered to go. While he was gone two or three of them went behind him and every skull he would catch he would hear a voice saying "leave that there, that's mine"
- Collector
- Mary Flannery
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Flannery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Buckstown, Co. Kilkenny
