School: Bealach (roll number 5811)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Daltúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0258, Page 153
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- (continued from previous page)stoop down and light a tuft of dry rushes and the light went out. From that day to this, the top of every rush is withered or singed even in a field where there is a forest of rushes.
On his way back from Slieve Bawne St Patrick slept a night in Kilbonsilla - the wood of the willows. The townland of Kilbonsilla is situated at the foot of Slieve Bawne just inside the eastern boundary of Kilgefin parish and adjoining Doughil - the black wood where there were 441 acres of wood so late as 1654
- Informant
- Very Reverend Canon T. Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Priest
- Address
- Kilroosky, Co. Roscommon
