School: Ballinagore (C.) (roll number 16341)
- Location:
- Ballynagore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Miss A. Heduan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 217
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- (continued from previous page)him go. The priest told him to stay there until he would come back. When the priest came back he brought him down to a river and changed him into froth on the water. He said "You shall not touch boat or man."
(I4)There is a field not far from our house called the Pull Bug. There is an old rock in the field on which there were many Masses said in penal days. In the field next to it there is an old castle in which one of the Mac Geoghegans lived. There is also an ash tree and it is said to be there for hundreds of years. There is a Bishop supposed to be buried under it but no one knows his name. It is called Balrath tree.
(15)There is a fort in the Old Road and people say that there were fairies in it long ago.(16)There was a house built on a fairies pass in Dysart and when(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Mangan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Pat Grehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Rahinmore, Co. Westmeath
