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 159
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- (continued from previous page)to build a house for the evicted tenant and about forty men there built it in one night.
- The old custom was to bring the accused to be hanged where the murder was committed. There was a man found guilty of committing murder in Ballagh and he was brought to Ballagh and he was hanged out of a shaft of a car.
- Three men were hanged from a tree in Drumbane for committing murder there. This was the last execution of its like in Tipperary.
- In the poetry that is written about John Dwyer of the Glens Ballagh is mentioned and that gives us an account of where he was born - Ballagh, Co Tipperary. He had a castle in Ballagh and one day as he was coming out of the church in Dundrum Cromwell was waiting outside and he asked John Dwyer(continues on next page)
