School: Ballinahowen (roll number 8646)
- Location:
- Ballynahown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Hanly
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- About two months ago while demolishing a side-wall in the Old Church here to erect a new hall, the work-men discovered the skull of a horse embedded in the masonry. Long ago masons put such skulls in to create an echo in the building.
Additions to a house are never put on the western as it is considered unlucky.- Collector
- Eóin Ó Reachtaraigh
- Gender
- Male