School: Killeigh

Location:
Killeigh, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
T. Mac Amhalghaidh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0804, Page 078

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0804, Page 078

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Killeigh
  2. XML Page 078
  3. XML “My Home District”
  4. XML “My Native District”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    bridge. It is called the Clodagh. The spoil is very good around this townsland. The crops grow very well and they never fail because the land is dry and hilly.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. I live at Newtown which is a townland in the parish of Killeigh. There is a small lake on our farm and the ruins of an old house, from which there is is supposed to be an underground passage leading about a quarter of a mile in which there is treasure hidden behind (and) an iron door. Nobody ever tried to open it or to look for the treasure.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Newtown, Co. Offaly
    Collector
    Sheila Cleary
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newtown, Co. Offaly