School: Killyon (roll number 7120)
- Location:
- Killyon, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Fithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0693, Page 241
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“There was a bishop who lived in Killyon Manor and after some time he gave up his religion.”
(continued from previous page)and he took up a stone and squeezed it into water. Then he took up the stone that the men could not lift and threw it across the ditch.
He said that if he got one half hour before his death he would save his soul but he died suddenly.
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“There is a heap of stones under a Deal tree in Craddenstown where there was a man killed.”
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