School: Dromakeenan
- Location:
- Drumakeenan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Ní Fhallamhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0818, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)about twenty feet high. It is very old masonry work
- There was a man one time and he had a lot of land and on part of this land were the ruins of a monastery. This man had a great greed for money so he made up his mind money would be better to him than stones so he sold the stones of the monastery and cut down a tree which was near by. The misfortune came on him all his cattle died and one member of the family went to the asylum and in the end he was evicted because he had no money to pay his rent(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Monks
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Monks
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Occupation
- Labourer
