School: Derinturn, Carbury (roll number 2169)
- Location:
- Derrinturn, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhistéil
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- (continued from previous page)piercing cries are heard, the cause of this is that a nurse killed the heir to the castle in olden times.
2. A carriage and pairs drive out of Newberry with two men driving and lights shining it comes through the gates without opening them.
3. There is a lone bush on the kill of Carbury which is supposed to have a pot of gold under it.
4. A witch threw a stone from the hill of Croghan to the hill of Carrick and when it lit there it broke. (Myra Murray) - Ita Malone
1. The word Ticknevin means the house of bones, there was a graveyard and a church there in olden times. There is also a well called St. Bridgids' well in Ticknevin and the mark of her foot is seen at the entrance to the well.
2. There is a field in Drummond from which a person cannot get out until daybreak once he goes into it at night. It is supposed to be the home of fairies.