School: Ballincor
- Location:
- Ballincor Demesne, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs Julia Liffey
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- Collector
- Michael Morkan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Morkan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Shinrone, Co. Offaly
- There is a grave yard in this district called Kilmurray. There are the ruins of an old church there. There is the shape of a saint's head in one of the walls. People visit here and leave a token because it is generally believed that if you put your head in the wall you will never suffer from headaches again. The chapel belonging to a famil named Murray who lived there in the olden times. St Patrick spent some time there in the olden times. Some say the shame of the head in the wall belongs to St Patrick,