School: Ballinlough (roll number 9238)

Location:
Ballinlough Big, Co. Meath
Teacher:
P. Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0704, Page 141

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  5. XML “A Cave”

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  1. Clonsilla Moat Killskyre is on James Keegans land. It is perfect. The Kesh is there perfect. You could bring a cart into it. This is what is called the drawbridge. When the enemy was coming you could fill the moat with water up to the level of the land. I brought hay out of the Kesh myself when it was set in con-acre long ago.
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    D.F. O' Sullivan
    Address
    Ballybeg, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Tom Keogan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Balgree, Co. Meath
  3. There is a Cave in Mrs. Henrys of Seymourstown, Killskyre Parish English visitors to the Napes (Landlords in Lough Crew near Oldcastle) visited it and they got the Game-keeper to show them where it was and they went down in it. It may have been 10 years ago. You go down steps to it.
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