School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)

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   hear the fairies harrowing and ploughing late at night. When the people began to till the field where the church once stood they ploughed up bones of the dead people.

   

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   Long ago there was a church in Killclooney near Milltown. In later years it was removed to Milton. There was a grave-yard in Killclooney also and there were some very old head-stones in it. People are still buried there in that grave-yard. There is a big flag-stone in the middle of the field to mark the site of the old church and there is ogham writing on it. There is an old ruin beside the grave-yard and at night it is believed, the dead arise

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Attracta Rhatigan

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs Rhatigan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   49

   Address

   Ceathrú an Urláir, Co. na Gaillimhe