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   "The Captains Hollow"

   On the road leading from Curnafurnish to Boher there is a hollow called "The Captains Hollow". Long ago there lived in Castletown a man naed Captain Armstrong. After his death people said that he used to drive a carriage without any horses up and down the road where this hollow is.
   That is the reason why this place got that particular name.

   

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   Sciobol-na-Sagart In Killaghantobar is a place known as Scibol-na-Sagart or it is called now The Priests' Barn which according to tradition got it's name from a mass rock where mass was celebrated in the Penal Days. In Killaghantobar also is a cross roads known as Carrig-na-huit where a local witch is supposed to have rolled a huge boulder out on the road to prevent the passing of a funeral on its way from Tara to Clonmacnois.

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Geraghty

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   Female