School: Ballylinan (Killabban) (roll number 3834)
- Location:
- Ballylynan, Co. Laois
- Teacher: T. Roche
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0837, Page 048
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“About twenty years ago a local man asked some more fellows to come to the Old Abbey some night to dig for money so they agreed and brought lights and spades with them.”
(continued from previous page)buried also.A few yards at the back of the Abbey there is a well and it is called the Blessed well. It is said at the end of the Abbey there is a boot of money buried there and a white lady that came on horse back was seen burying it.Ballyadams Castle is situated in Leix about one mile from Ballylinan village. It was once occupied by a man named Robert Bowen better known as Seán a Pice. Seán a Pice put all the Irish into this Castle and when ever he would have too many of them he would throw them into a murder hole with spikes on every side of it and they would be torn to pieces before they would reach the bottom.One day Seán a Píce was riding down the road and he was talking to a man named Lawler. Mr. Lawler told him that he had young O'Moore working for him. Seán a Pice went out in the field and asked yound O'Moore could he work a bow and young O'Moore said he could not and Seán a Píce asked young O'Moore to hold the arrow while he would be getting up on his horse and young O'Moore took it and he pulled the bow and shot Seán a Pice.