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1. Local Place Names - Slatt (continued)

   

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   of Leix.
   The Monument Bush.
   There is a hawthorn tree near where I live, and it is called the Monument Bush. The old people say that there were three of the Wexfordmen buried under the tree and that the old hawthorn tree is a monument to them. There is another hawthorn tree also called The Monument Bush on the Old Road. A local person wanted to make a real monument out of it. He cut off the branches and the night after he got sick and he is in bed since then.
   Keeffe's Hill.
   There was a battle fought on the hill in seventeen ninty eight. O' Keeffe is the name of the family who own the field.
   Gáirdín na Sídhéog.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Slatt Lower, Co. Laois

   Collector

   Teresa Ryan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Slatt Lower, Co. Laois

   Informant

   Thomas Ryan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Slatt Lower, Co. Laois