School: Wilkinstown (roll number 1917)

Location:: Wilkinstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:: Máire Ní Failcheallaigh

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Story about the Penal Times - The Curates Cave (continued)

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beheaded him in the cave. The cave is called the "Curates cave" because of the crime which occurred in it.

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The Story about a Tree

There is a beech tree on a ditch which divides Mr Colwells land from Mr Timmons in the townland of Arch-Hall in the parish of Kilbarry. There is a branch on this tree on which leaves never grow. In the Penal days a priest named Father Enright" was hanged from this branch, and the mark of the steel rope which was used can still be seen on it.