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School: Lemanaghan, Ballycumber

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Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Máire Galvin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 130

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    of property that time. Sooner than let the brother who turned protestant occupy the court the rightful heir set fire to the court. When his brother came in sight of it the flames were reaching the sky. The court is surrounded by the Garrison wall twenty feet high by three feet thick. There are four turrets and gun holes a perch apart and three feet in width. There is another castle beside it named Caislean dubh and nobody knows who lived in it and nobody who build it.
    Owen Roe O'Neill spent one night in it on his way to the battle of Benburb.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Chuinn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballydaly, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    John Egan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coole, Co. Offaly