School: Derinturn, Carbury (roll number 2169)
- Location:
- Derrinturn, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhistéil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0771, Page 083
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- (continued from previous page)it is very hard to knock even a stone out of it. There is a local tradition that when it falls it will kill a red haired woman.
- Chris Donohoe told by her father.1. There is a bush on the hill of Carbury and there are fairies supposed to be under it, something would happen to anyone who cut it down.
There is a woman heard screeching in the castle every year.
There is a pot of gold in the quarry and there is a cat supposed to be minding it.
There is a hangman's tree near the hill where people were hanged long ago.
There is a field near Carbury that if you once went into it at night you could not get out of it until daybreak.
There is a ghost at Ardkill style every time the gap is fenced the bushes are taken out again.Joan Doorley stories told by her father.
Carbury castle is haunted by a cat and(continues on next page) - Collector
- Chris Donoghue
- Gender
- Female
