School: Carrigabruise
- Location:
- Carrigabruse, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mc Enrae
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- There is a story connected with Bruise Hill.In the fourteenth century the English were fighting in Ireland. The Irish chieftains sent to Scotland for help for Robert Bruise, but he was engaged in war in his own country, and he sent his brother Edward in his stead. He gathered troops, and landed at Larne in the year of thirteen hundred, and fifteen. He marched from Antrim to Limerick, and a disease fell on the flanks of his army, and his soldiers died on the track on which he came. If that had not to befall him he would have overcome the Invaders, and freed Ireland from their laws.As he was marching through the country he rested his remaining Soldiers at Bruise hill. People often heard his hill called by the name of "Bruise hill".Carrigabruise is a Irish word(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elaine Whyte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edenburt, Co. Cavan
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- Mrs Whyte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edenburt, Co. Cavan
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- Mr Whyte
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Edenburt, Co. Cavan
