School: Knockbride (2)
- Location:
- Knockbride, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T.J. Barron
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1015, Page 372
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- James McEntyre (60) of Drumeague says the Monastery of Skeagh was situated in the townland of Skeagh where James Thompson now lives. Cromwell came to destroy it using battering rams or cannon. For four days his men failed to take the building. Then they were shown a keystone by a local shoemaker called Adair (he lived in Skeagh. Johnny Hall has his place). The building was then broken into and two friars escaped: they swam across Skeagh Lake and were killed on Wilson's rock. Two thorn bushes grew where they were killed. Adair then got the Skeagh estate; his daughter married a Hudson who was the first of the Hudson family to own the estate. They had a son called Adair Hudson.
The Turret at the Monastery of Skeagh
Same informant as above.
About fourty years ago Mick McEntyre, informant's brother, helped take down the turret at the monastery. The turret was about eight feet high and round on the top "like a pot upside down." You could walk round the top. The mortar was very hard. The turret was at a corner of the dwelling(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas J. Barron
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- James Mac Entyre
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Drumeague, Co. Cavan
