School: Dundrum (B.)
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Dublin
- Teachers: A. Breathnach Andrew. T. Walsh
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- About six miles from Dublin the Hell Fire Club is on a hill. It is a medium size old castle.
When the owner of it died nobody else claimed it. All the men of the district came to play cards in it every night. One night when all the men were playing their nightly game one of the men cheated. The men rushed upon him over-powered him. The bound him hand and foot and put him in a barrel of whiskey. Then they set fire to it burning him alive. That was a cruel thing to do but then men did not care. From that day on that old castle was called the Hell Fire Club.
- Collector
- Stewart Sommerville
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Churchtown, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mr Sommerville
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Churchtown, Co. Dublin
