School: Carrigabruise
- Location:
- Carrigabruse, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mc Enrae
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0999, Page 224
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Carrigabruise
- XML Page 224
- XML “Historical Tradition”
- XML “Historical Tradition”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)and some people say it is the rock of Bruise, and others say it is the rock of hospitality.
- There is tradition connected with this district, and I have heard it from several old people. It is connected with the great Scotch chieftain Robert Bruise who came to Ireland in thirteen fifteen to help the Irish.It is said that when he was marching through Ireland in some place convenient to a hill in this townland. This hill was later called "Bruise Hill", and many old people say that he camped there for a night, and that it is from him its name is derived.He marched from Antrim to Limerick, and he was victorious in every fight. At last a famine destroyed his troops, and he was finally defeated at Faughart where he was an English sought him out, and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paul Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Whitegate Cross Roads, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr M. Tobin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gallon, Co. Cavan
