School: Ballyhack Convent
- Location:
- Baile Hac, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: An tSr Treasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0874, Page 137
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- (continued from previous page)the first Norman invaders bestowed on Dunbrody, were not of their own creation, but belonged to a race who were in no way their inferiors in civilisation and it is to them we may trace the quadrangular fortifications at Passage the massive square Castle of Ballyhack the Castle of Crooke and Duncannon, all of which are shown on the map which Mr. Hore gives as a frontispiece to his history of Dunbrody Abbey.When we come to study the situation of these ancient towers or fortresses that stand along the both sides of Waterford Harbour; we must come to the conclusion that they were not selected by any capricious or hap-hazard accident of design. On the contrary they were a part of a well conceived plan for the safe navigation of(continues on next page)
