School: Tír-Dhá-Ghlas (Terryglass)
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- Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
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“Some couple of months ago the revered relic of St. Columba was removed from its resting place in the school yard.”
You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.- In the parish of Terryglass are two castles - Drominagh, erected about the middle of the fourteenth century by O'Madden of Galway: Terryglass erected before the coming of the Normans. It is a stone and mortar building and was originally an ecclesiastical institution.References and descriptions of those castles given in Father Gleeson's history:- "History of Eile O'Carroll".
- The present Catholic Church, Church of the Immaculate Conception, was built on a mass-rock site, but the old Catholic Church (now converted into a school and hall) was built within the monastery grounds in the year 1832. Local tradition states that stones from the monastery buildings were used in the erection of houses in the locality , chiefly in the Protestant Church and its boundary walls.