School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
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- On Sunday evening my father and myself went for a walk to Ballyadams Castle. I began asking him questions about it. He told me people were killed there years ago. The man that owned it was very wicked his name was "Shaun a Fiaca". Then we came along to Ballyadams churchyard and we saw him drawn on a tombstones also his wife and children.
- Collector
- Criostóir O Maoilearna
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Southfield, Co. Laois
- One night three men were sitting around a fire chatting. One of them began to boast of what he could do. He said he would visit a churchyard at any part of the night and pick up human bones. They decided that two(continues on next page)
