School: Dromina, Ráth Luirc (roll number 11262)
- Location:
- Dromina, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Daniel Hishon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0367, Page 362
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- CASTLEGLEN NEAR DROMINASome of the oldest residents state that without doubt there was a castle on an eminence near this glen. It is shown on Ordnance Survey Map. Eibhlín Óg Fitzgerald is supposed to have resided there. In local folklore we are informed that after her death, she used to appear driving a pair of white horses, drawing a chariot. I am told that there was a salt mine on a minor scale in the vicinity.
- Collector
- Maureen Hishon
- Gender
- Female
- KILLAREE FORT (Lios-a-Rí)
The town land of Killaree is about two and half miles from Dromina. It is a very large fort in the parish of Shandrum, about one and a half miles from Newtown on the road to Miltown Castle. It is elevated fifty three feet and is surrounded by a clump of trees. It is conspicuous for miles around and is visible from the town of Tipperary.
