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School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)

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Ballyadams, Co. Laois
Teacher:
P. Ó Bruadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0836, Page 177

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    around the well. Beside the wall there is a stone with two imprints on it. They are said to have been made by St Bridget when she knelt on the stone. They are like the imprint of knees.
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    [put them in front of the castle so that anyone firing at the castle would have to fire at the women. When the besiegers were informed of this they with drew.
    It was attacked in 1798 by the Insurgents but not taken. Garrett Buttler who was then in the castle escape in the nightime and fled to Cashel.
    It got its name from an infamous owner John Bowen. He was supposed to be a very cruel man. He had a dungeon immediately under the main doorway of the castle. There
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