School: Scoil na mBráthar, Doon (roll number 16713)
- Location:
- Doon, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Cathasaigh
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“The town is 14 miles South East from Limerick, on the road to Templemore.”
(continued from previous page)some days after boys picked up military buttons and badges torn off each other by these warriors in their scramble to get outside the range of fire though nothing more deadly than stone and broken bricks had been discharged against them. The officers in charge held a council of war and decided to withdraw their forces. The evictions were never carried out. The families of these two honest farmers still hold the old homesteads and no longer know landlord or agent.About two miles to the West of the village of Doon, there stood another castle of the McBrian family known as castle Guard. This was repaired by Waller O'Grady in 1829. The last childless descendant of the O'Grady's now lives in Castle Guard.Doon is pleasantly situated on the Southern slope of a group of hills called the Doon mountains. From the hill to the North of the village one gets a fine view of the fertile valley which stretches form Cashel to Limerick. Beyond this valley there is a range of green hills among which the historic Ballyneety, Derk, Knockgrein and Nicker are conspicuous, but the fame of Ballyneety is but of(continues on next page)