School: Clondalkin (B.) (roll number 693)
- Location:
- Clondalkin, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: D. Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0796, Page 003
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- (continued from previous page)records tell us in 865 the fortress of the Danes here was named Due-Awley. The fort of Aulaff was burned and the heads of 100 of their choicest men were strewn on the plain by the Irish. To revenge this act, Aulaff is recorded to have surprised by an ambuscade 2,000 Irish many of whom were slain or taken prisoners. Clondalkin in 1071, we are told was accidentally burned and in 1139 Pope Alexander confirmed Clondalkin to the sea of Dublin. A man named James Staaehurst in 1657, of Cardiff, sold all his estates in the towns, villages and fields of Newhall and Clondalkin, to Daniel Molyneux. The King in 1609 granted to Gerald, Earl of Kildare, several premises and lands at Clondalkin. The gun-powder mills were erected in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Tully
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Collinstown Park, Co. Dublin
