School: Druim Mór (roll number 16349)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: John Noonan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1098, Page 60
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- (continued from previous page)and brought back to the steeple, where he was hanged.
The place where he was hanged is still shown in the "Steeple".
The three-ton stone lies in Cooladawson about three miles from the Steeple.
The Steeple is still visited by sightseers especially on Mulberry Sunday in July.
Visitors pick and eat the mulberries.
- We have in the school an old wooden article about 200 years old. It must have been the first attempt to quicken the slow process of Knitting by hand. It consists of two pieces of wood one inch square and 16 inches long.
There are twenty two teeth set in the wood, seven in each piece.
The pieces are clamped together at the ends but do not meet all along,because at each end is a plug of wood. The separate(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Noonan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
