School: Dundalk (Mercy Convent) (roll number 5387)
- Location:
- Dundalk, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. Pól
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- Local Ruins.In the parish of Haggardstown in the old graveyard there is an old ruined monastery which was built in the sixth century. Old people say that there is a tunnel leading from it to the sea. In the seventeenth century Cromwells soldiers came and blew it down with cannon. They placed the cannon on a hill called "Pentlands hill" which was convenient to the graveyard and blew it down.
In Millextown near Drogheda there is an old church called the "Jumping Church". It was said that at one time a Protestant man died and was buried there in side its walls, and the following day it was seen that the wall had moved in, and left him outside of it.
A few miles from Haggardstown graveyard there is another place called Haynestown in which Catholics(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Mc Keown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Blackrock, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mr Ed Mc Keown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Blackrock, Co. Louth
