School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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- Down near Ballinacargy there is a little hill with a stone on the side of it. It is said that long ago when St Patrick was teaching the true faith one evening he was very tired and he sat down on the stone to rest. Ever after that it was called St Patrick's chair.
People pay visits to it and it is said that whatever you wish for while sitting on it you will get it.
- Once a giant who lived in my district some hundred years ago threw a rock of stone from Frewin hill to a field in Mr(continues on next page)
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- Michael Healy
- Gender
- Male
