School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)
- Location:
- Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 613
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- (continued from previous page)fifteen feet high. In the heart of the hill there can be seen the ruins of Saint Eoin's Chapel.The church is supposed to be three hundred years of age and tradition has it that it was built at the time the Catholic people of Ireland were being persecuted for their faith. Near hand the church there is a holy well. When the saint was dying he prayed for water to quench his thirst and immediately water came gushing from a rock.At the foot of this hill, ripples the waters of Derravaragh where the Children of Lir spent the first three hundred years of their bondage. The lake is seven English miles long and three miles broad. This lake was the best trout fishing lake in Ireland in former times.Passing on the the main road to Castlepollard you will pass a field called the Chapel field. It got its name because there is the ruins of a chapel in it. It is situated a little bit in off the road and is surrounded with bushes. One would think to look at it from the road that it was a fort. The church(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Haughey
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs R. Clinton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Froghanstown, Co. Westmeath
