School: Cill Dubh (roll number 16503)
- Location:
- Kilduff, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Emily Williams
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0444, Page 187
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- There is an old castle in Jeremiah Machmahon's land in Ballybeggan, Tralee. This castle was built in the beginning of the 17th cent It is now in ruins. I was besieged in 1659 by Cromwell and his men. Piaras Ferriter went to Killarney to make peace between himself and the Cromwellians but he was shot near Killarney on a hill called "Martyr's Hill". There is a well near the castle where spies were supposed to be thrown down long ago. It is bottomless. If you put your ear down to it you could hear a river flowing beneath. It is now covered with briars and stones.
- Collector
- Master William O Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinvosherig East, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr James Curran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockawaddra East, Co. Kerry
