School: Kilbeggan (Mercy Convent) (roll number 14491)
- Location:
- Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Sr Philomena
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0733, Page 037
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- (continued from previous page)west and from which it is easy to “short cut” from one place to another without necessarily going by the main thoroughfare. From the East end of the budge which spans the river Brosna it is easy to get to the Tullamore road and back to the town again.
It is about a mile around although the town itself is but a furlong in length. This road is called the “bircular road”. It is about the most popular one here from a historical point of view. It is easy to see through the clump of beeches the ancient Church which is in the posession of the Protestants since it was confiscated by them in the penal days. It is on the left hand side on a hill.
Formely on the site where it stands St. Beccan founded his church when he came here in the sixth century close by is the “Relic” where the “rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep” whilst somewhere near too is the Croppies grave where the men who were shot in the rebellion of 1798.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Hurley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath
