School: Derinturn, Carbury (roll number 2169)

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1. Bealoideas - Cairbre (continued)

   

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   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)

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2. Bealoideas - Cairbre

   

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   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.

   

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