School: Cadamstown, Kinnitty
- Location:
- Cadamstown, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: B. Ní Chuignigh
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- There is a well called St Cuddy's well in Cill McCuddy. It is a blessed well. It is said that some tinkers were passing by it one day and they washed their clothes there. The well suddenly went dry and it sprung up in a different place. It never went dry afterwards. This event happenend about a hundred years ago. The well is overgrown by moss now and there is no devotion carried out by the people for it.
- Collector
- Mary Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cadamstown, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Obdt. James Carroll
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Cadamstown, Co. Offaly
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“At Castlefield near Cadamstown, there is mass rock...”
At Castefield near Cadamstown, there is a mass rock on which priests used to say Mass in the penal days. On this rock is a figure of a chalice. Where the rock stands is a very lonely place. Many times priests came here to say Mass. Very often they were caught and hanged on a hill nearby called Gallow's Hill.Near where the Mass rock stands, there was a castle owned by the O'Carrolls'. They used also kill priests by means of a trapdoor.(continues on next page)