School: Rahugh (roll number 12905)
- Location:
- Rahugh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Maonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0732, Page 303
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- There is a church yard in Rahugh and it is more than one hundred years old. In the middle of the church yard there are the ruins of an old church.
There was a stone in the church yard of St. Hugh, and it is moved away from where it was, and the story is told that St. Hugh used to pray on the stone. The track of his knees, arms, and forehead are on the stone and it is called the headache stone of St. Hugh. There is a well attached to it. People go to it to get cured. The church yard is square it is sloped towards the West. There is a stranger's plot in it. In years gone by there was a man buried in the stranger's plot and it supposed that his name was Michael Gaynor and that he come from the North of Ireland.
- Collector
- Pauline Cusack
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rahugh, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Denis Cusack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rahugh, Co. Westmeath
