School: Dangan (C.) (roll number 7499)
- Location:
- Dangan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Ní Fhógartaigh
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- Drawing of castle and crestThis Norman castle belonged to a man named Peter Lynch. It was destroyed by Cromwell and his followers and the owner was shot in a wood nearby. A girl is supposed to appear every night in white robes at a well near the castle in which she hid a crock of gold and later was killed by the English.
Peter Lynch was a Roman Catholic and had a chapel fron for himself and his household. It was also destroyed.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid Melia
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- William Nelson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Springvalley, Co. Meath