School: Kilmeedy (B.) (roll number 7161)
- Location:
- Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: John O'Grady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0496, Page 246
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- (continued from previous page)house for himself.
When he had it built he settled down.
Every morning when he went out something was dead.
After a time he had to leave the farm.
There is the ruin of an old Chapel standing there yet.
The holy water font is there yet. There is a bush on where every grave was made.
There is not any wall or ditch around it now. There is a hole in the wall where the Black-an-tans carried the church money.
There was a priest saying mass there one day the Black-an-tans came on and shot him above in the altor.
It is in about a mile in fields from the road. It is in the lands of Sunny Liston.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James O Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bellville, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Pat Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
