School: Tulach an Iarainn (roll number 1289)
- Location:
- Tallow, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Dhubhshláinge
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0638, Page 214
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- Near the Square in Tallow there is a butcher's stall underneath the courthouse which was once a gaol. Prisoners were left here whilst they were awaiting trial and were brought by a secret stairway to the court. At the southern end of the town there is a hill called Gallows Hill. It got its name because there was a gallows there in olden times where animals and wrong-doers were hung.
At this end of the town also, where the Bride Valley Stores are at present, a large barrack housed a regiment of Horse Guards about the year 1810.
The present Protestant Church was erected near the site of the old one which was once a Roman Catholic Church and where a great number of the old inhabitants of the town and their descendants up to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Theresa O' Keefe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tallow, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mr W O' Keefe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 40
- Address
- Tallow, Co. Waterford
