School: Ballyhack Convent
- Location:
- Baile Hac, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: An tSr Treasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0874, Page 221
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- (continued from previous page)St James Parish at Ramsgrange is far more beneficial in their results to the people than were the gifts which Hervey De Montmorency and Earl Richard bestowed on Dunbrody Abbey now over seven hundred years ago.The Anglo-Norman monks at Dunbrody were not race of the soil, it was made imperative on them by their royal patrons the kings of England to treat the native Irish as enemies that should be hunted down like wild beasts. They could not even claim the Sanctuary of the Altar, which could not be denied to an English felon.Under these circumstances it need not be wondered at if at times the Clan Cavanagh who infested the neighbouring forests of Bantry and Idrone were on anything but amicable terms with the monks at Dunbrody. The traditional slaughter of the brotherhood in the "Boreen a Baus"(continues on next page)
