School: Churchtown, Athy (roll number 7790)
- Location:
- Churchtown South, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: P. Ó Dubhlaoich
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- (continued from previous page)made of wood and iron, and they are ornamented. There are people buried within the ruin in the graveyard.
It is said that during the Penal Days a priest was shot when going to the church to say Mass. This happened in Churchtown graveyard.
In Toberara graveyard there is a well, and there is a bush over it. There is said to be a cure in the water of the well. Each person that goes to it pray or to get cured hangs a piece of cloth on the bush. It is the custom in this parish that the family use their burial ground whether it is in the parish or not. - Cook, skipping, marbles, tops, cat, jack-stones, scotch-hop, ring-a-rosy, robbers, colours, racing, jumping, high-gates, chain-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Heydon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brownstown, Co. Kildare