School: Ballyhack Convent
- Location:
- Ballyhack, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An tSr Treasa
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0874, Page 206
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- The Haggard of old that gave its rents and contirbutions of sheep and cattle to the representatives of the Abbots of Dunbrody who was its feudal lord, is there still and like the other portion of the Dunbrody Barony it holds a free and prosperous peasantry that knows or fears no Lord "saving the lord on high".But "where is the ancient Ballymadder? echo answers, where?
There is not a vestige of its people or their homes to be found, the whole village was utterly wiped out to make way for a Scotch planter. When Goldsmith returned to his native Auburn after long years of absence, he found only one solitary being out of the joyous crowd that(continues on next page)
