School: Bigstone, Baltinglas (roll number 14643)
- Location:
- Ballyraggan, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Héilighe
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- (continued from previous page)in the rath. When they got them inside they slaughtered them. After a while some of the Irish chiefs got suspicious. One told his comrade that if he did not come out just after going in to get up on his horse and ride for his life.
There is a spot in the middle of the rath and no grass grew on it ever since. The people call it the blood hole of Mullaghmast
It is said that a man was going to the fair with a cow. Whe he was passing a rath he heard a queer music inside the rath. He let on the cow and he got across the ditch to see what was making the music
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- Collector
- Nicholas Germaine
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graney West, Co. Kildare
- Informant
- Edward Germaine
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graney West, Co. Kildare
