School: Ród (B.)
- Location:
- Rhode, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maoldomhnaigh
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“About two miles from my house, there stands a Castle in a high field. When the Danes were in Ireland, they built this castle...”
About two miles from my house, there stands a Castle in a high field. When the Danes were in Ireland, they built this castle, and used it as a grinding mill. It was decided to make a road in to this mill, so that people could get to it easily. This road was made from "Wakeley's Hill" in Bally shall in through a bog, by a number of men who resided in that district. It is now called the "Black Castle.
- Collector
- Teresa Bergin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Scally
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rhode, Co. Offaly