School: Killyon (roll number 7120)
- Location:
- Killyon, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Fithceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 359
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“It is said that the time the highwaymen went the road that they would stop every (time) man they met and take his money...”
(continued from previous page)highwaymen went the road that they would stop every man they met and take his money off him and if he had not any money they would kill him and bring him down and throw him into the bottoms or the soft boggy lands of Ballinlig. It is not long ago since my father began to till that part of the land and when he was ploughing he ploughed up a great many men's bones and bones of horses. Another time a great many years ago two men were making a ditch in the same fields and when they were digging they dug up the form of a man in the bottom. It is said that Ballinlig is full of men's bones who were killed or murdered in the olden times.
- Collector
- Mary Teresa Coyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinlig, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Joseph Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinlig, Co. Meath