School: Loughanvally (roll number 8363)
- Location:
- Loughanavally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs. O'Connor
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 388
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Loughanvally
- XML Page 388
- XML “Historical Tradition”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There was a famous battle fought in the townland of Croughill and one of the chieftains who took part in it was killed. He is buried there now in his full coat of armour. The exact part is not known although people have searched more than once. Some years ago a man found a stirrup made of pure bronze. It was supposed to be belonging to his horse who was also shot. It is now in the museum in Dublin. The same man's brother saw a huge golden bar as he was ploughing. It turned up with the soil but disappeared at the same time. He never saw it again. It was supposed to be something connected with this chieftain of king. There is the ruins of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Egan
- Gender
- Female
