School: Killahan (B.)
- Location:
- Killahan, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Leathlobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 185
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- There is an old ruin not far away from my house. It is situated between Abbeydorney and Causeway. It was a very big building but one morning lightning came and knocked off the head of it. One day soldiers came and they followed a girl up the stairs. She jumped from one of the windows and fell to the ground safe. There was a cannon ball fired at it from Ballyheigue and it made a hole in it seven or eight feet high. Long ago, when the owner wanted his daughter to marry a certain man she would not. She went up on the top of the castle and jumped and was killed.
- Ballymacaquim Castle.Ballymacaquim Castle is situated between O Dorney and Causeway. It was supposed to be built by the Fitzmaurices. It is a square piece of building about thirty feet square and about seventy feet high. There is a gap in the west side which(continues on next page)
