School: Ballinacarrig, Rathdrum
- Location:
- Baile na Carraige Íochtarach, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhghoill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0918, Page 201
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: Ballinacarrig, Rathdrum
- XML Page 201
- XML “Old Ruins”
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
- There is a ruin of a house three stories high. It is on top of the hill opposite this school. The owner is Miss Kate Byrne Rockview Clash, Rathdrum Wicklow.Miss Byrne says she heard from her mothers people that it was a look out Station in the time of Fiach McHugh O'Byrne. It is called the Salt box from its shape.It has beautiful rooms in it. This lady used it as an outhouse for cattle. It has a fanlight over hall door in the shape of a spectacles.
