School: Paulstown Convent (roll number 1915)
- Location:
- Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Mother Benignus
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- Informant
- Gretta Drennan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garryduff, Co. Kilkenny
- There was a man living in Mountruthe House, and when he died they had to get six horses to draw the hearse, and the six horses refused to draw it, then they had to get the horse belonging to the priest to draw it. He was buried in Kilmocahall churchyard. There is a pig's head engraved on the stone. This man's name was William Barton, he lived in Mountruthe House in 1881.