School: Clonbullogue
- Location:
- Clonbulloge, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. Fitzgerald
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There is a bush in the middle of a field behind Byrne's house in Blakefield called "The Forbidden Bush." It is a whitethorn bush with no thorns, very old, mossy, and stones around it. No one ever cut it. Mass supposed to have been said under it in Penal Times.
A field near this bush is called the "Scairleheen." A priest was said to have hidden here.
A field behind Dempsey's of Ballysooghan is called "The Long Craft."
Another filed on this farm is called The Big Kelly, and another The Little bells.
There is a field beside the road in Ballysooghan called The Big Field. In this field there is a big flat stone about one foot under the round. This stone is about 7 feet by 3.
On the same farm is a field called the Class Field. Hollow in centre of field.
A field behind Dempsey's of Blakefield is called the "Machroon."(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Peter Mooney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Ballysooghan South, Co. Kildare
- A field in Aughameelick called "Flynn's Craft.
A field in Aughameelick on the left-hand side as you go to Portarlington called "The Wheel-about."(continues on next page)
