School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 249
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- (continued from previous page)at the back of Temple Connor.
Ann Kilmartin remembered being down in this tunnel one day when she was a little girl. She and a few other girls went down with a candle. They got into the tunnel at the back of Temple Connor and it went down through Connor’s field towards the Shannon. As the girls were going along the candle quenched and they got afraid and ran back to the church-yard again.
- Some people can take another person’s butter off the milk before it is churned by working a charm.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Ann Kilmartin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Creevagh, Co. Offaly
