School: Talbotstown, Kiltegan
- Location:
- Talbotstown Upper, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: R. Mac Icidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 169
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- (continued from previous page)This well is situated in a graveyard on the side of a hill known as Kilranelagh Hill. It is at the western end of the old cemetery. It is a fine well, circular in shape. The stream issues from the western side; passing through the boundary wall it flows into a stone trough in the adjoining field.
In the cemetry at Kilranelagh are interred the remains of a High King of Ireland, namely Ard Mac Ainmire who was killed at Dunboyke in A.D. 598. Sam McAllister, to whom a monument is erected in the Square in Baltinglass, is also buried here. The cottage at Derrynamuck where he was shot is distant about six miles north-east of the cemetry. Tradition also has it that Moore who was hanged at Tubber Owen ( the holy well at Rathdangan) is also buried here, as also a sister of Michael Dywer's named Mary Dywer.I could find nobody to point out the exact grave in which Sam McAllister is buried although it is believed to be somewhere in the north east corner of the graveyard.
- Informant
- Mr Humphries
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilranelagh, Co. Wicklow
