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School: Killyon (roll number 7120)

Location:
Killyon, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brighid, Bean Uí Fithceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 441

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    “In or about forty years ago there was a man named Andrew Dunne and he bought a house in Riverbank near Killucan in County Westmeath.”

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    and into the bed rooms where the men slept. Ministers lived in it before Andrew Dunne bought it and they led very bad lives and after their dying the place was haunted.
    There was a mission in Rathwire Parish and Andrew Dunne got the missioners to bless it. The missioners blessed all the fields and all the stables and they said mass in the house and there was nothing seen or heard in it any more.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lillie Coyne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballinlig, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Mrs Coyne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballinlig, Co. Meath