School: Whitecross, Julianstown (roll number 3380)
- Location:
- Whitecross, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Criostóir Breathnach
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- (continued from previous page)a second stone a cross is carved and on a third stone a flower is visible. In olden times it was the custom of the people when going with a funeral to the graveyard to leave the coffin on the edge of the road, at this certain spot and recite the De Profundis.
- On the main road from White Cross to Bellewstown there is a moat about mid ways which is called the moat of Lisdornan. There is supposed to be an underground passage running from the moat to a place called Finnegan's hill about three quarters of a mile to the West of Lisdornan house. The western entrance is on the land of Mr Hoey of Rathollandand the Moat is on the lands of Mr Ennis of Lisdornan.
- Collector
- Leo Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Claristown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr Frank Duffy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Claristown, Co. Meath