School: Castlefleming, Ballybrophy (roll number 12223)
- Location:
- Castlefleming (Giles), Co. Laois
- Teacher: Miss Olive Warren
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0828, Page 239
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- (continued from previous page)was about 600 years old. Miss Roe in Maryborough got it sent down to Rathdowney. All the people that saw it were very interested in it. It might have been left there when people were escaping from the castles around here.There was a man digging up roots of a tree to put up a ditch, and he came to a box. There were silver spoons in it. He took them home and after a few days he sold them.There was a man around here. He lived in Errill. He found a spear in Errill bog. He sold it to the Museum in Dublin. He got three pound ten for it. It was supposed to be in the bog for nearly three thousand years. It was made of Bronze.Jim Davis of Cappaghlahane has some stones with numbers on them in his(continues on next page)
