School: St Columba's Abbey, Navan (roll number 882)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Br. Abban O' Donoghue
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- During the troubled times there would be a great price on the "Head" of a priest, and many a time a cave came in handy to save the priests from the priest hunters.
One day they captured a young priest on the Hill of Faughan, and they brought him over to a young ash tree to hang him. When he was hanged(continues on next page)