School: An Bealach, Crosaire an Ghúlaigh (roll number 1131)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Diarmuid Mac Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0583, Page 157
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- (a) Dundrum: One day as Cromwell's army was marching past Dundrum the drummer boy broke the big drum and the people said it was a "done drum". That is the reason the village is called Dundrum.
- (b) Maud: On a summer's evening Maud used to come across the field opposite his abode which is now the Convent in Dundrum. He used to come over opposite the Blackbridge creamery and sit on a branch of a tree. When he died a great many people said they saw his ghost sitting on the branch. Then the branch was cut down and it never grew since.
- (C) Kilmore Churchyard.
In the time of Cromwell There was a woman buried in the churchyard on top of Coady's Hill. She was buried without any lid on her coffin because the people who put her into the coffin were running away from Cromwell and when the were about to put the lid on the coffin they heard the noise of soldiers(continues on next page)
