School: Cnoc Luinge (C.) (roll number 11665)

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1. An Ancient Way (continued)

   

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   home. A young priest went to the girls home and prayed for hours and banished the evil from the poor girl, but the ordeal made him almost an old man. The girl was cured and got a good position with a lady afterwards: At the time it terrified the people of Co. Kildare.

   

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2. Moats

   

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   There is a moat in my neighbourhood called Keogh's moat. It is situated about a mile from Knocklong Railway Station in the direction south, south east in the townland of Raheena, modera. There was a parish priest about 80 years ago, in Knocklong parish who somehow learned there was a treasure buried in the moat. So he got two men who lived in the house quite close to the moat to dig for the treasure. They finally dug up a crock full of small bones, and as

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teresa Curtis

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Jim Condon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Knocklong, Co. Limerick