School: Ballykilmurry
- Location:
- Ballykilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Bean Uí Odhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0807, Page 100
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- It was supposed that the Danes made whiskey and beer. They made it out of heath it grows on a bog and they never let the secret be known. There is a big heap of stones just across the hill from the castle, and people call it the old distillery. A man that worked on the land of Ballykilmurry found a chalice and there was a curious kind of cross in the chalice. He sold it to a man in Tullamore whom I do not know. He sent it to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Burke
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Ballydrohid, Co. Offaly
