School: Ród (B.)
- Location:
- Rhode, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maoldomhnaigh
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- Old Roads
Written by Mary O'Rourke,
Told to her by Mr O'Rourke
Newtown,
Rhode
Offaly.
This is a story told to me by my father about a man named Mr Moss who lived in Galway.
He wanted to make a road from Dublin to Galway without a bend on it. He hired men to make it. When they had it made as far as Clane a district outside Edenderry, he met a church. He wanted to knock the church, but he would not be allowed. So he never finished the road. Parts of this road are still used.
- Collector
- Mary O' Rourke
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr O' Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Offaly
