School: Killmallock Convent School
- Location:
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Dimpna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 250
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- (continued from previous page)1613 to 1639. At the North Eastern corner of the nave is a round tower thickly clad with ivy.
It is fifty feet in height with walls five feet in thickness. It is five feet in diameter. The tower is believed to be an Irish Cloictheac.Note: In the original document there is a photograph of a "View near Water Gate Bridge, Kilmallock. This cannot be reproduced here.Kilmallock was a walled town in the time of the Anglo Normans. Two of the gates now remains:- Blossom's Gate and Water Gate.
- Kilmallock's Old SchoolsRobert Oliver built a Charter School in Kilmallock for about twenty children in 1783. About one hundred years ago school was held in King john's Castle. At(continues on next page)
