School: Borrisoleigh (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- About a statute mile from here on the road to Nenagh is situated the Church Field.
In this field there was a church built by St. Culan. The place is called Coolawn after the saint.
Through this field there runs a river. Across this river are stepping stones.
About a hundred years ago there was a bell found in the fork of a tree. It was sent to the London Museum.
During the famine there was a woman coming to the river to wash clothes. In the corner of the field there was a well and when the woman came as far as the well she was too weak to go any farther; so she washed the clothes in the well. The next day the well was dried up and at the other side of the glen there was a new well. - About a statute mile from here on the road to Nenagh is situated the Church Field.
In this field there was a church built by St. Culan. The place is called Coolawn after the saint.
Through this field there runs a river. Across this river are stepping stones.
About a hundred years ago there was a bell found in the fork of a tree. It was sent to the London Museum.
During the famine there was a woman coming to the river to wash clothes. In the corner of the field there was a well and when the woman came as far as the well she was too weak to go any farther; so she washed the clothes in the well. The next day the well was dried up and at the other side of the glen there was a new well.- Collector
- Andrew Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathmoy, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Dan Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Rathmoy, Co. Tipperary