School: Wilkinstown (roll number 1917)
- Location:
- Wilkinstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Failcheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)beheaded him in the cave. The cave is called the "Curates cave" because of the crime which occurred in it.
- There is a beech tree on a ditch which divides Mr Colwells land from Mr Timmons in the townland of Arch-Hall in the parish of Kilbarry. There is a branch on this tree on which leaves never grow. In the Penal days a priest named Father Enright" was hanged from this branch, and the mark of the steel rope which was used can still be seen on it.
- Collector
- Brendan Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Arch Hall, Co. Meath
- Informant
- James Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cluain an Ghaill, Co. Meath