School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 229
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- (continued from previous page)walls in the ruins a watch was seen but when the men tried to get it down it was gone.
- There is a cave down in Newrath and down in it are three roads, one leading to the right, another to the left and the third on straight. No-one ventures to go down into it since the strange happenings that occurred there a long time ago.
There was a poor man playing a fiddle on the street of Kells one day, and some man who was interested in seeing where the roads lead to told the fiddler he would give him a large sum of money if he went into the cave. He also told him to keep playing(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Aughey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
