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School: Loughanvally (roll number 8363)

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Loughanavally, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Mrs. O'Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 376

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    and another where Jim Donoher is living. There were two kings living in them. The two kings fell out. A young man came up and killed the king of Coyne. The old people say you could walk across under the land from one castle to the other.
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    There are the ruins of an old castle in Casey's field in Milltown where a king lived long ago and there is supposed to be a passage under it. It is in ruins for the past hundred years and there is nobody in the district who remembers the king who lived in it.
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Oonagh Nugent
    Gender
    Female