School: Killeen, Granard (roll number 13752)
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Ó Duibhgeanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 430
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During these penal days some people were afraid to stay in their own houses at night for fear that they would be shot and there were several men shot at their own homes.
There was a man reaping in a field for a widow woman in Tonneywarden during those penal days and when he was going out this morning he put a piece of oaten bread in his pocket for fear he would not be in that night and he was found dead and the woman knew it was he because she got the piece of oaten bread in his pocket.
My father told me all this information, and he is years.
May Fagan, Leitrim, Mostrim
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Local Cures There is a skull in the monastry in Inch Island and when a person would have a toothache and get the skull and dip it in Lough Gowna and drink the water out of it he(continues on next page) - Collector
- Harry Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killeen, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Reynolds
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killeen, Co. Longford
