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School: Portlaoighse (Convent) (roll number 13386)

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Port Laoise, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Sr Treasa
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    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.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josephine Dunne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballydavis, Co. Laois
    Informant
    Mrs Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballydavis, Co. Laois