School: Owning Convent (roll number 16430)
- Location:
- Owning, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernadette
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0844, Page 112
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- (continued from previous page)or passage was used as a hiding place for the Friars or what ever Religious order occupied this building; it is also stated that whatever church belongings were there, were hidden in this cave and are there yet.About 100 yds nearer the river there is a well, called the Friar's Well. The stones or gravel, in this well are curiously marked with a red substance, which is supposed to be the blood of the Friars, when they were slaughtered for their faith here in the past. Near here is a curiously shaped peninsula in the centre of which grows a skeagh or whitethorn. I can verify(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lena Gorman
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scogh, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Philip O' Dwyer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Killonerry, Co. Kilkenny
