School: Coolderry
- Location:
- Coolderry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: L. Mac Conriada
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- (continued from previous page)mass. Before Mass was over O'Carroll arrived. He was so vexed that he shot the priest as he was finishing Mass.
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- Informant
- Mr Watkins
- Gender
- Male
- The Murdering Hole in Leap CastleThis is a round stone structure rising over the Castle and also sunk into the ground. From its walls inside protrude iron spikes the object of which was to mutilate the body of the victim before it reached the bottom.One of the best known legends which refers to this hole is that(continues on next page)