School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 104
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- (continued from previous page)cattle sold out of it. Another man, P. Donnelly of Danestown built a house from those stones and he never lived in it.
In the vicinity of Skryne there is supposed to be a deLacy Castle. That Castle is supposed by some people to be the Castle of Walterstown. (7 February 1938).
- Long ago Verse Coyle, used to come down from Dublin to collect the rent for the landlord around here. he had a certain day for collecting it. On that day all the people who had to pay rents had to meet him at Peter Butterlys house.
- Johnny Mulligan used to be ceilidhing up about Runahan. He came home along the Glonya and out into the Moate Field. (There is a little Moate in this field not as big as Dainestown One). On a path on one side of the Moate he saw what was like a lump of hay until he got near it. Then it opened out and turned into(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alphonsus G. O' Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Monktown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- John Byrd
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farm-labourer
- Address
- Kentstown, Co. Meath
