School: Naas (Mercy Convent) (roll number 15040)
- Location:
- Naas, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776, Page 364
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- At the rear of Corban's Lane there was an orchard about 120 yrs. ago.
Further up the Lane was an hospital about 110 yrs. ago.
At the cross-roads at the very end of the lane the Spaniards were slaughtered. The corpses were piled upon each other so that it was called Corpes' Lane.
There was another orchard up in Church Lane, called Grotto Villa, where a number of people gathered on Sundays for pleasure.
Soldiers used to have a fort up on the Moate. There was a well at the back of Millbrook houses which was called Sunday's Well. The man who owned the field closed the well in, as the people used to go there when they had earaches, headaches, or toothaches. He thought that they were trespassing on his land. Some young men of the town went and re-opened it.
An inscription, on one of the stones in the place where once was an orchard is as follows:-
"A.T.
E.R.Y.
MONT. GOM.
E.S.O."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- New Row, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Miss Branagan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- New Row, Co. Kildare
