School: Askeaton (B.) (roll number 2039)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: D. Mac Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0502, Page 413
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- (continued from previous page)In the Castle there is preserved to the present day the heavy door of the prison cell.
On this there are one hundred nails with the diameter of the nail-heads about two inches.
- There are two old ruins in Askeaton, a castle and an abbey. The castle is built on an island on the left side of the river Deel and it was built in 1199. There are often pilgrimages to the abbey, and a large crowd attend. There is a grave inside the abbey. Long ago there was a monk and he did some wrong deed, and as a punishment he was made go around the country looking for "Gort-na-Suaidre". Then he should build a monastery on a place of that name. on that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Nestor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Milltown North, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Nestor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Milltown North, Co. Limerick
