School: Portlaoighse (Convent) (roll number 13386)
- Location:
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Sr Treasa
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- (continued from previous page)"Giants Step." It is a fairly large plot of ground and a big hole shaped like a step. There is a castle near it where a giant is supposed to have lived and if you stood up on this castle you could see for miles around the country.
There is also another hill down that road called "Moss's Hill" there is the ruins of a house besides it where people named Moss lived one time.
A small bit up the Dublin Road is a hill named "Gallows Hill." it was used for hanging people during the Penal Days.
- The old people believed in their own remedies for diseases but they said(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonkeen, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mrs Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonkeen, Co. Laois
