School: Baile Mhic Aodháin,
- Location:
- Geehanstown, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: -
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0715, Page 516
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile Mhic Aodháin,
- XML Page 516
- XML “Killallon Churches”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)At the northern end of the parish of Killallon where the townlands of Galmoystown and Herberstown meet, the Irish soldiers ambushed Cromwells troops on their way from Oldcastle, and the soldiers who fell The second church was built in the present graveyard of Killallon and the remains are in a fairly good state of preservation. At funerals people still practiced that grand old custom of laying down the coffin and saying a few prayers on the side of the old church. This church was attacked by Cromwell's soldiers from an eminence near Clonmellon. One of the Cannon balls which hit the church is built into the church wall at the entrance gate to the churchyard. It was found some years in Thomas Bennet's old house. The third church was built at the back of the present church convenient to where the stables now stand. Portion of the old wall still remains. The present church was erected in 1837. Killallon is the name of the Parish(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Una Gaughran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stirrupstown, Co. na Mí
