School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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- (continued from previous page)people go there they have to tie a piece of twine or something to the tree or something would happen to you before you would get home. There is also a cure in the water of the well. There is another well in Chatsworth in the land of Mr. J. Mc Grath it is like the other with a tree over it. If you had a cut or anything or anything else you were to rub the water on it cure in a couple of days.
- About a mile up the demensne there is an old castle. It is said to have belonged to the Brennans and that the fought(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Fintan Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
