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School: Tinryland, Carlow

Location:
Tinriland, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Seidhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0907, Page 479

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  1. Traditional Tales

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    A local youth named Casey said on his first experience of looking through a telescope made this verse
    Rivers and lakes it brought to the Virgin soil
    And Cork's own town to Jack Walshe's Bog.
    In Castletown there lived people named Faulkener and it was said that the ghost of one of their departed members used to haunt the place and that one of the two young men of that name who are still living, fired at the ghost with a silver sixpence and that it was never afterwards seen.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Richard Heydon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Tinriland, Co. Carlow