School: Portlaoighse (Convent) (roll number 13386)
- Location:
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Sr Treasa
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- (continued from previous page)found by John Clear and one day Michael Hyland was walking on its grounds and he found a set of white teeth.
Near the gate it slopes down into a hallow and in the centre it is flat. It is said that when a battle was fought the soldiers would bury the dead and after a time it got to be the shape of a high mound with white thorn bushes growing in a ring around it. A man named Curran once cut bushes in it he put twelve head of cattle on it one morning he went to feed them but they were all dead.- Collector
- Josephine Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballydavis, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballydavis, Co. Laois