School: Kilbeggan (B.)
- Location:
- Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Mac Siúrtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0732, Page 362
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- (continued from previous page)alike. It was he who got re-built the Catholic Church on the site of the little chapel which was torn to the groud by the Yoes in the penal days. It is in the centre of the graveyard. There are also ancient Monuments in the Protestant graveyard. This was formely a Catholic Abbey. It was always recorded by the old people that the first Abbot of the Cisterian Monastery (St Becain) was buried there.
In William Tormeys lane on the Harbour road there is a well. It is generally beleived to have been sunk in the days when the Monastery was in being. There is a a stone over the well on which the raised imprint of "Our Ladys" or some Sts foot. In Coola near the mill there are five holes in awall supposedly belonging to a giant who lived there.
In Ballinderry Big on a Mound on the farm of Mr Owen Duffy on the south east side of the dwelling house there is a chair shaped stone called the "Druid Stone" Old people disagreed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paul Dunican
- Gender
- Male
