School: Briscula, Mountrath (roll number 15197)
- Location:
- Briscula, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bean Uí Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0833, Page 046
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- (continued from previous page)completed the road he turned out his horse into a field and it turned into a stone which was found in Dooleys field. Last year this stone was dug up ? is to be seen there
James Madden Knox told me the following story. " Over fifty years ago the man on whose land it stood took a pair of horses and went out to plough the graveyard. He had scarcely opened the set when he fell on the plough and he was dead dead before sunset. His two horses were found dead the next morning. So no one ever interfered with Kilalas from that day to this.
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- Nora Phelan
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- Phelan
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