School: Edmonton (roll number 8100)
- Location:
- Edmondstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs O' Brien
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0728, Page 028
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- (continued from previous page)Well - about a quarter of a mile from the crossroads wrestling and other sports were engaged in. This Pattern was held in honour of Saint Laistreach who founded a church here in the townsland of Edmondstown at an early period. The site of the Church and Church-yard is still pointed out - diagonally between Hiney's Cottage and Lynch's farmhouse. Some human bones were unearthed by members of the Whyte family - when the field was being tilled about forty years ago. It appears that faction fighting developed in the latter days of the Pattern particularly in the vicinity of the Public House that formerly existed at the Crazy Crossroads and John Hiney remembers being told by old residents that an antecedent of his remembered having seen mounted policemen arrived to quill disorder and letting a keg of whiskey flow along the road.
- Collector
- Máire Áine Ní Lorcháin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Hiney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
