School: Baldoyle (B.)
- Location:
- Baldoyle, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: M. Ó Hannracháin
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- (continued from previous page)There is also a bell beside the house and it is said that it was used for calling the monks to the church for prayers. The bell is still there but the tree in which it hangs has grown over it and there is only a small part of it showing.
It is said that the church was blown down by Cromwell. One day I walked through it with a companion looking for birds nests, and we found an old holy water font. It was built into the wall and was carved out of stone.
The present land-owner is a man called Mr Geogre Dempsey.
The building it-self is very old and is very dangerous because the stones are only kept together by the ivy that grows up the walls of it. The name of this(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mícheál Ó Catháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Grange Road, Co. Dublin