School: Dunboyne (C.) (roll number 15917)
- Location:
- Dunboyne, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Seosaimhín Ní Chonmidhe Uná Frinse
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0689, Page 011
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- In Loughsallagh graveyard there is a holy well known as St Michaels. In this well there was a cure for the toothache. Every time people came here for the cure they threw a pin into the well. After a person dying the pins that were used in the waking were brought and also put into the well. It is said that a poor man washed his stockings in the holy water and ever since the well is dry.
- In Mr Brutons farm at "Mill Farm" there is the remains of an old Mill. The people of the surrounding place always came to get their flour made. Around the mill was a big pond in which the people caught wild duck. The pond is now filled up and the place where it was is now a hollow. There is a lane leading from the public road up to the mill. One day a man was going up the lane with a horse, the horse was thrown into the ditch. At the sport there is a cross shaped out on the ground with stone.
- Collector
- Kathleen Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Nicholas Moran
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
