School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Drumakill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 155
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- (continued from previous page)his followers who destroyed it. After it was burned the monks scattered through the country and some of them lived with the people and others of them built new monasteries for themselves. Saint Maeldoid remained in this district living with his own people - the O Hanrattys. The English Lord Blayneys were always bringing people from England so that this country was planted with English people and the old inhabitants became scarce. After the monastery was burned the place lay in ruins for years. The people had no place to worship in and Maeldoid thought he would build a church near where the monastery stood for the people to worship in. There was no path from the road to Mullandoy and the people wandered through the fields. In the Belfast woods(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jane Wilson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromore, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr James Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumleek South, Co. Monaghan
