School: Paulstown Convent (roll number 1915)
- Location:
- Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Mother Benignus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 360
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- About one mile from the village of Paulstown there is a very picturesque mountain called Kellymount. About a quarter of a mile from this hill there is an ancient abbey, and also an old churchyard, which is divided in two by a small river called "Kellymount River".
In winter when there is a flood in the river, the corpses all washed out of the graves.
One very wet day in winter a man was walking on the bank of the river, he noticed a nice new board floating on top of the water. He got a long stick and pulled it out and he noticed it was the side of a new coffin. He put the board on his shoulder and brought it home and made a salt box out of it. It is said that the salt box is still in that family. Only very young babies are buried there now.
- Battle fought in Doninga in the very ancient times. There was a human bone found there which measured 4 feet from the knee to the thigh.(continues on next page)
