School: Tullyallen, Drogheda (roll number 854)
- Location:
- Tullyallen, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonchobhair
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“A crow never built on Townley Hall wood nor a hare is never seen there.”
(continued from previous page)In a district called Garballagh, which is near Drogheda. there is not the name Saurin. Long ago people of that name did something to the priest who cursed them and said, "Garballagh will always be without the name of Saurin.
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“There was a well called Daw's well, on the Rampart...”
There was a well called Daw's well, on the Rampart, which is on the banks of the Boyne, at Drogheda. The old gentry use go up to it every morning and bring home water cress from it.
There is no trace of it now.
Long ago, water cress used be used on the breakfast table with both poor and rich, in Drogheda. (no title)
“The old gentry never used their own horses or coachmen...”
The old gentry never used their own horses or coachmen in going out at night to Balls. They always sent to Livery Stables for horses and coachmen. They hitched the horses on to their own coaches and went journeys of twenty or fifteen miles.