School: Castletown
- Location:
- Baile an Chaisleáin, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 328
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- (continued from previous page)Castletown. Aged about forty four years. James Reilly.
- Saint Patrick is the patron Saint of Castletown Kilpatrick. Castletown Chapel is dedicated to him. It is said that he passed through this parish on his way to Slane. He stopped at a well near where the Protestant Church stands and drank out of it. He knelt on a stone near by and prayed. The tracks of his hands and knees are still to be seen. It is called Saint Patricks well. There are three trees around it. The seventeenth of March is his feastday. There is no patern held in his honour. Kilshine is dedicated to Saint Jane. It is said that there was a monastery there long ago but there is no trace of it now.
Kilshine is now in the hands of the Protestants.
There was a church on at Drakestown long ago but there is no trace of it now. There is a cemetery now(continues on next page) - Collector
- Agnes Donegan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Donegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 48
- Address
- Baile an Chaisleáin, Co. na Mí
