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School: Shelbaggan Convent

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0874, Page 048

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    at the weddings and the christenings and spent their hours of grief when their dear ones left this world for a happier Sphere.
    Cattle + sheep browsed over the homesteads of Ballymadder, so it might have been with the rest of the old Dunbrodi homesteads only for the efforts of two heroic priests
    Fr. Codd + Canon Doyle - may their memory be forever green in the hearts of the people whom they saved from destruction.
    Ballymadder was the chief settlement of those bearing the family name of Waters, they were indigenous to the district. It might be from this family that the place took its name as madder might be a deduction from Waters - wodder - hence Ballymadder
    The name is evidently of Danish extraction.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Cowman
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyhack, Co. Wexford