School: St Columba's Abbey, Navan (roll number 882)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Br. Abban O' Donoghue
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- (continued from previous page)to Mathew Corbally who re-sold it ot Patrick Murphy of Navan Brewery in 1799 for the sum of £900.
- There was once coal mined in Folistown
It must have been about 1830 or so.
A very old man named Mangan of Rathaldron (now dead) relates that as a boy he was lowered down the mine shaft to rescue a heifer that had fallen in & came to light on a ledge.
Miners tools of all kinds - picks shovels buckets barrows etc lay scattered around. As far as he cauld assertain he was only haly way down the pit.
There was another pit-shaft some distance away. There was a big mas of stone in Hayestown yard shaped like a barrel & seemed to consisted of gravel etc cemented togither. The stone is said to have come from the mine?
Follistown Well. see under: Wells
