School: Valleymount

Location:
Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 022

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  1. Ireland is dotted over with ruins and there are a great many of them in this district:-
    There is Mass Rock in Ballinastocken and another on Granamore Mountain where the Priests said Mass in '98.
    There is a Holy Well in Ballyknocken and a little stone cross beside it.
    The "Sweat-house" in Annacarney was built in the time of the Danes, people were cured there of Rheumatic fever.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.