School: Kilmurry

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1. In the Penal Times (continued)

   

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   the big stone there were three crocks of bones under it. Then they took up the crocks of bones and threw them out on the ground. The next morning the bones were all back again in the crocks and the crocks were back in the same place as they were at first. There was a priest hanged out of the tree and it was supposed to be him that owned the bones.

   

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2. In the Penal Times

   

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   There is a hill in this district called Shanra hill and on that hill there was a priest hanged. He was hanged out of a large ash tree and this tree rotted away afterwards. He was hanged by the English or yeomen as they were called. It is said that there was a chapel on this hill in old times. There is a large stone on the top of his hill in Mr Carter's field and there is a hollow in the middle of the stone. People say it was used by the priest to wash his hands in when he was saying mass. John Feeny Ballycomon was making a ditch in this field and he found a lot of bones of people in it. They were only about one and a half feet under the surface. Peter Kilroe a roadman was edging the road on the top of this hill one day and he came on a cement path by the edge of the road. It was leading inwards towards

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. penal times (~4,335)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas Dunne

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   14

   Address

   Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly

   Informant

   Richard Dunne

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   72

   Address

   Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly