School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)
- Location:
- Rush Hall, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Lochlainn
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- (continued from previous page)it and his cattle died until he had but one left and in our own time a young member of the family was personally afflicted and said to be for tampering with this rath. Nothing extraordinary is known of this rath except to the north west corner of the field on another farm is what was once the formation of a garden and houses and here lived a man named John Larissey, it is told that several times he attempted to build a wall of a house and what he would put up in the day would be thrown down on the night in some invisible way 'Twas supposed to be in the direct line to another rath in Clonahill. On this line also is a house belonging to Mr Sheeran of Windsor it has a hole in the end of it and no matter how it is filled and packed today,tomorrow it is open as before(continues on next page)
