School: Ballyjamesduff Convent
- Location:
- Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Sr. Mary Theresa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0996, Page 439
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- (continued from previous page)the cave there are big slabs of stone with Irish written on them. Underneath this mountain there is a holy well. St. Patricks Well. There is a big flat stone beside it, on the stone there is a track of a horses foot.
- My Home District
Ballyjamesduff is the name of our District. It is in the Parish of Castle-Rahan. The Barony is Castle-Rahan There are about seven hundred people altogether. There are only one or two thatched houses in Ballyjamesduff.
Ballyjamesduff got its name from a man called Black James Duff a yeoman who did a good turn for the English in France. The English put the Irish people of their lands and gave it to Black James Duff. He built a lot of houses and when he died the people called the village Ballyjamesduff.
There is a song attached to Ballyjamesduff "Come Back Paddy Reilly to Ballyjamesduff." The river Inney flows through Ballyjamesduff. It is called Inney because a girl named Enney was drowned in it.(continues on next page)
