School: Myshall (C.)
- Location:
- Myshall, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhaoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0910, Page 247
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- An Old Grave-Yard.
Mrs Murphy was telling me about a very ancient cemetery half a mile from her home, known as "Barragh Grave-Yard" and also an old church which was destroyed by Cromwell in the Penal days nearly three hundred years ago.
The old people tell many tales of this place. One of them is that of a golden gate, believed to have been sent from Rome to the pastor of the church named Father Barragh, hence the locality derived its name. Some peasant who saw the soldiers coming to destroy and lute the church, took away this gate and hid it in a bog near by, and it is believed that while the soldiers were doing this bad work, a great fire fell, and burned of all their hands and arms. The man who hid the gate marked the place where it lay so as to find it when the trouble would be over, but alas! it was never found.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Myshall, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Mrs Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockbrack, Co. Carlow
