School: Aughrim (C.)

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1. Rosahane Graveyard (continued)

   

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   In older times there was a chapel too but now nothing remains of it. But there is a vault in which it is said Billy Byrne of Ballymanus was buried, but lately this vault has been closed. this graveyard too is entered by crossing a field from the road. From time to time an old inhabitant is still buried there.

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2. A Well

   

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   A Well

   In Ballygobbin, near Aughavannagh there is a bog where the local people used cut their turf. Near some of the turf banks is a well which even in the driest weather does not dry up and the water is always cool.
   I have heard it said that a drink of the water would keep off the hunger for a whole day.
   This well is sometimes called St. Gobbin's Well.
   Now the bog belongs to the Forestry Department.

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