School: Tobar Rua (roll number 15427)

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1. Bird-Lore (continued)

   

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   want to be goverened by so small and mean a king so they chased her away.

   

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2. Old Castles and Ruins

   

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   Old Castles and Ruins

   Keelogues castle is situated in the village in which I live. The ruin indeed is not preserved and a farm-house is built just beside it which spoils the beauty of the old place. This old castle beloned to the Bourke's of Connaught. It was a long building of about two and a half storeys and was thatched as was the custom of the day. There was a private chapel in this building and the inhabitants always kept a priest in the house. The window of the chapel could be seen a few years ago but it has since fallen with a large chimney which the villagers called "the big chimney". An old man in the village remembers another old man who served Mass in the castle this old man has still in his possession a little bell which was used at Mass. There was an avenue leading up to the castle and the trees are still growing on the road-side. This piece of road was always called "the avenue" and is less than a quarter of a mile long. Some of the fields around are called the "old gardens" and they are the gardens and parks of the castle

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Gannon

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Patsy Keenahan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Keeloges East, Co. Galway