School: Dromakeenan
- Location:
- Drumakeenan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Ní Fhallamhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0818, Page 119
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- (continued from previous page)woman baking a cake of bread and the soldiers saw the woman and they thought she might tell where the monks were and she was going to but she was turned into a pillar of stone and she is in the Holy Island yet with the cake of bread on her head. Sentry Hill
Ths hill is about a mile outside Borrisinossory and in olden times several people were hanged there. There is a big Beech tree hangs over this pit and many children used to play on this hill in the Summer. They filled up the pit but you can still see where it was as the tree has many names cut in it.Charleville Lake
There is a boathouse on this lake and several people used go out boating on it until one day the man that owned it and a lady friend went out boating and they both were drowned. Since that time no one would go in on this lake and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tess Scully
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Dooley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 77
- Occupation
- Domestic worker
- Address
- Borris-in-Ossory, Co. Laois
