School: Dromiskin (B.), Dundalk (roll number 837)
- Location:
- Dromiskin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Jas. Morgan
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- (continued from previous page)farmers. It was not done without much labour and cost, in fact, it is said that it cost a guinea per foot.
It stands there now, defying all tides, even becoming larger with the seaweed and such that the tides wash up. In it there are two sluice gates, one of which was made recently, which allow drains to run into the sea and prevent the tides coming up.
It stands about twenty feet in height and the same in breadth at the bottom, but slopes away to about three feet of a path at the top. May people walk along this path in Summer enjoying the sweet sea breezes. The rampart itself is about two miles long, extending from White House to Lurgangreen. It is thought that(continues on next page)
