School: Knockbridge (C.), Dundalk (roll number 15102)
- Location:
- Droichead an Chnoic, Co. Lú
- Teacher: Margaret O' Hanlon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0665, Page 322
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- (continued from previous page)by year. There are foxes and badgers living on top also. When they are making new dens they tear out human bones, which roll down to the bottom of the mount. One field away is said that it was Old Dundalk, But there are no traces to be seen now.
Not far away there is a field called Coole Ash, which means the valley of death. Long ago it was a graveyard but there are no traces to be seen now.
Beside the mount there are some old ruins. A man lived about one hundred and fifty years ago. A river flows near the ruins and it is called after him.
There is a large rock not far from these ruins with a mass stone in it.
Near that, there still stands the ruins of an old house. In the penal days priests said mass there.
Beside the railway there is a large cave. It is about four miles long. It ends a Ashe Mount.
Beside Ash farm there is a small corner in one of the fields. Long ago(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Helen Mc Ardle
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Ais Mhór, Co. Lú
