School: Druim Mór (roll number 16349)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: John Noonan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1098, Page 70
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- "Naw" Monellan isn't much of a place now but you should have seen it in my young days when there was fifty men employed. They Kept three men full time trimming and cleaning the avenue and a small boy to brush up after them. Woe to the man who would have dared to break as much as a twig that size in them days and soon there wont be a twig their size left. It was the Rev. Robert Delap that owned it then but he wasn't the first of the name.Are they long here altogether?No not long, I was gardener as a young man in Robert's time and he often told me their family history.The first Delap to come to Monellan was a Colonel in the British army and he was given the estate be the "Crown". That would be over 130 years ago. It might be before 1798.This Colonel had a brother Sam who started to build the "Big house" Sam had a son who was in College about the same time as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Noonan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Fadden
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 80
- Address
- Ballynaman, Co. Donegal
