School: Dún an Ochta (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Eyrecourt, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Mac a' Bhuidhe Úna Ní Laighidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0056, Page 0143
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- (continued from previous page)the mill has not been worked. The present owner did not understand it, and so let it fall into ruin.The present "Chapel Lane" was so called on account of a Chapel being here at one time. To-day no trace of it remains but a few walls which were made a dwelling of by ancestors of it's present occupier - a Peter Coen. On this account it is rent free. There was also a cemetary at the back, but the fairly level field of to-day shows little of this. There was another Chapel down in the field attached to the domain. Traces of it can be traced today - quite a number of grassy mounds, and crumbled heaps of stones. In this same place is a Holy Well, where an odd person still comes to look at the water deep down in the trunk of the tree which never dries up. The little offerings - brooches, pins, buttons, etc., are still there.The present Church was built(continues on next page)
