School: Bennettsbridge (roll number 16406)
- Location:
- Bennettsbridge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 280
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- (continued from previous page)with food and afterwards with drink. When he was inebriated the two brothers attacked him and left him almost dead. It is stated that a school master - a strong hefty man visited the castle. He go the usual reception but he was sparing in the consumption of the drink. He pretended to be drunk and the two attacked him. He had the leg of a chair ready and he gave the two an an merciful threshing. Two large piers twenty feet apart still stand and point out the entrance to his castle.
Tradition states that he hanged several people in his grounds. People called Langrishe occupied the Castle after the Myhills. Afterwards it was divided into 10 small holdings, and Mr Timothy Kelly lives in the Caste premises.
- Collector
- Seán Ó Riada
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Martin Redd
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Killarney, Co. Kilkenny
