Killalas

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Killalas is an old grave-yard in Brokera about two hundred yards from the bog road leading to Mountrath where unbaptised children and strangers who die in the locality are buried. Formerly all classes of people were buried there.It is on a hill slopingto the East and there is a road from Killalas to Clonenagh. It is said that St Fintan constructed the tod in one single nightand people often meet with it when they are cutting turf but they never interfere with it.
It s called St Fintan's Road and it is said that the saint met a poor woman who was crossing the bog and he took pity on her and constructed the road. 
One day last year Patrick thompson brought a load of gravel from St Fintans road as they were building a new house but he was compelled by his parents to take it back as it is considered unlucky to touch it.
when St Fintan had

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completed the road he turned out ? horse into a field and it turned into a stone which was found in Dooleys ? field. Last year this stone was dug up ? is to be seen there
James  Madden  Knox told me the following story. " Over fifty years ?the man on whose land it stood took a pair of horses and went out to plough ? graveyard. He had scarcely opened the set when he fell on the plough and he was dead dead before sunset. His two horses were found dead the next morning. So no one ever interfered with Kilalas from that day to ?