School: Oldcastle (C.) (roll number 12489)
- Location:
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire D. Ní Nualláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 016
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- (continued from previous page)is believed that is why it is called the red Lake. This lake is in the shape of a bottle. When people go for the cure they must rise it with the neck of the bottle in the neck shaped piece of Lake. If a girl has the rose a boy must lift the water for her, and a girl must lift it for a boy. Old people say that you should not look behind you when leaving the lake, A man named Brady from Belleek was drowned in this lake. He went up one morning with a pair of beads around his neck and jumped into it.
