School: Naomh Muire, Droichead Átha (roll number 8052)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernard Mc Cabe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 344
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- About a mile from where I live there is a big stone about ten feet high and about nine feet broad. This stone belongs to Smiths of Piperstown. It is there a very long time and the people do not know when it came there but they all say that a giant threw it there, from Carlingford to this field. The tracks of his fingers are on it. There is a lot of names of people cut out on it but it is not easy to read.
- No crows ever built in Cartown wood because one time there was a priest who wanted to build a church in a field Cartown and Mr. Chester the owner would not give him leave and the priest said "On that account no crows will ever build in Cartown wood and there will never be a rightful owner for Cartown.
- Collector
- Nancy Cluskey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Duleek Street, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Maureen Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carstown, Co. Louth
