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School: Valleymount

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Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
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Dll. Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 014

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  1. An Old Schoolhouse

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    There was a ruin in Ballyknocken known as the old school-house. A priest out of Valleymount got the building of a school from my father's Grandmother until they would build a school in Valleymount. When they built the school in Valleymount the priest gave the key of the school back. A master by the name of master Black taught school there. Then a man by the name of Barney Byrne took it by force and when he died my Uncle John took possession of it. The Ballyknocken Band got it to practice in; then they left it and it remained there for three or four years. During that length of time the doors and windows got broken. Then a man by the name of Patrick Osborne bought it from my Uncle Thomas and got Michal Ryan to build it up again. Patrick Osborne is living in it now and has a shop there.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Quinn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Mr M. Conway
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    54
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Carrigacurra, Co. Wicklow