School: Whiterock (roll number 13820)
- Location:
- Carrigeengeare, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: J. Faulkner
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- (continued from previous page)and was 105 feet long 93 feet broad and 40 feet high. It had a leaden roof. It was built about the year 1609.Sir Fredrick was an Undertaker of 500 acres of fertile land and 10,000 acres of mountain. He must have been a wealthy man to be able to build such as castle with Sligo a flourishing town on one side only 15 miles away and Enniskillen on the other 24 miles away.Dromahair at that time was merely a location of a monastery called Carrick Patrick at the head of Lough Gill as well as of O Rourke's Castle. The O Rourke's were really the strongest house in Connaught and had their stronghold at Dromahair but Sir Fredrick conquered it.Sir Fredrick was in Derry(continues on next page)
