School: Kilkenny Convent (roll number 13885)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: An tSr. Borgin
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- (continued from previous page)away not know y with now. The basket industry is done away with since the man who carried it on died. But I do not know why the wood-work factory was done away with.
Told by Richard Hennessey
53 Lord Edward Street
Kilkenny
written by
Bridie Moore
Friary St.
Kilkenny.
- Local Ruins
There is in the parish of Saint Mary's a ruined Abbey called Saint Francis Abbey. It is said to have been built by the Franciscans Fathers. The local tradition has it that the Holy Fathers while praying there were ambushed and put to death by nonblievers of the Catholic Faith. The Abbey was then felled and still remains so.
There is also in the parish of Saint Canice a very fine tower which is(continues on next page) - Collector
- Bridie Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Friary Street, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Richard Hennessey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lord Edward Street, Co. Kilkenny
