School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 154
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- (continued from previous page)The English tried to cross the drain and Hugh O'Neill killed a great number of them so that the drain was full of dead bodies. When Hugh O'Neill's men were going to drive the English army up to Churchill they walked acroos the dead bodies that were in the drain. The drain met the lake in both ends so that Mullandoy was surrounded by water. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries there was a monastery in Mullandoy and monks lived in it. They were well learned and a number of people came from other parts of the world to be educated with them. In sixteen and sixty when Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland his followers came as far as Mullandoy and burned the monastery. Oliver Cromwell never came to Mullandoy himself but it was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jane Wilson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromore, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr James Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumleek South, Co. Monaghan
