School: Ballyuskill (C.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Mary Power
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0866, Page 177
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- (continued from previous page)rise then there is a hollow and a rise again. There is a rath on the top of the hill. It is a big circular rise with some bushes growing around it and one lone bush up on the top of it. Michael Dooley and his brother Martin heard music in it once when they were gathering sprigs about it. Another time they were stones that were around it and when they had them filled and just going away they met a strange woman dressed in a grey shawl and a shirt who said to them "ye have a good load of stones but it is well for ye that ye said your prayers this morning." There is a holy well in one of the rath's in Keoughans and a Saint lived in it long ago and it is said that it was he that used to drink out of it.
- Informant
- Mr P. Dooley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Attanagh, Co. Laois
