School: Aclint, Ardee (roll number 2138)
- Location:
- Aclint, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Neill
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There are the ruins of an old monastery in the town Louth. Beside this monastery there is a little house and it was all made of stone; it was supposed to be for holding valuable belonging to the monastery and the monks; there is a legend about this house it is said there came a knock to the monastery door one night, and a monk asked lodging and they would not let him in, he lay down on the ground and in the morning he was dead and this house was found built over him; There are the ruins of an old castle in Nicholastown and the remains of it are to be seen yet it is in Ardee, Co. Louth and there was a dungeon in it for keeping prisoners;
There are some large stones there still and there is writing in Latin on them; The castle was built in the year 1816;
There are the ruins of an old castle in a field belonging to Jack Murphy it was knocked by a man name Cromwell and this happened in the year 1651.
Written by Angela Martin on th 5 May 1938
Told by Mrs Martin Reaghstown on 4th May 1938
- Collector
- Angela Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Reaghstown, Co. Louth
