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School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)

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Irishtown, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Manus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 364

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    There is a ruined castle in Dunmacree Irishtown, Co. Mayo. It is about 749 years old.
    It is derelict about one hundred years. It was owning to the dissipation extravagance, and recklessness of the Blakes that their immense wealth was squandered in the early part of the last century so that the last of them had to seek shelter.
    I cannot say if it had a dungeon but it had a wall-press where a scelton was found some time after their deaths.
    One day a travelling chimney-sweeper called there and his services were requisitioned to clean the chimney so when the young
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nancy Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilvine, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Bridget Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilvine, Co. Mayo