There is a moat in the townland of Mount Bruis in the parish of Lattin in Co Tipperary, situated in the land of Thomas Purcell. Its height is about sixty feet having a circumference of one hundred feet with a flat top where stands the remains of an old castle.
The four walls of this castle still remain although it is over two hundred years built. Presently its height is about fifteen feet and about ten feet wide. There are four large openings to be seen in each wall where there were once doors, and where there were windows we can see four smaller openings, this is all that can be seen in the castle.
There are many stories about this castle and who lived in it. Some say that Edward Bruce lived there, for the word "Bruis" sounding like

and bring over the Ebnglish people and give them all the land that the Irish people had. Cromwell was the man that came and brought his soldiers with him and he told the Irish people that they could go to "Hell or to Connaght and he drove them out of their lands and gave it to his soldiers. It was the time that the first Damer came to Damerville then the soldiers treated the Irish people very harshly Liam Dall heard that all his grandfathers land was taken from them by Damer he saw that all the land belonging to the people in the Glen of Aherlow the Massey's were treating the people very badly and he heard that there was people by the name of Langley's and they were called the "Hanging Langleys" because when they would meet an Irish man or woman on the road their only sport was to hang them they would get a rope and put it around the neck and swing the person on to their back and leave them hanging there untill they could be dead. Joseph Damer started to build the court and he brough over Scotish tradesman to work for him and they lived at Mount Bruis and every day the used to come from Mount Bruis every day across the river Ara and there is a bridge over the river Ara known as the "Scots bridge" because it was over that bridge that the men used to come across tto work for Damer.
Liam Dall used to go to count Scot's every day and there used to be one missing every day when

"Bruce" gives the people an opportunity of introducing this Scottish name; but the most general story is, the word Bruis or (brughas) means a castle and that there lived there a very rich man named Damer who had land for miles round. He having a larger residence two miles north "as the crow flies" built this castle as an alternative place of residence, especially for summer months.

1. Where: There was an old school in Lattin. Another in Mount Bruis.2. Teachers: The teacher in was John Casey. And the teacher that was in Mount Bruis was Cox.3. Who taught: There was Irish, Lattin and Greek taught there.4. Buildings: The buildings that was in the old schools was made of mud and they had a hole cut in the roof for to let out the smoke.5. How long did the teachers remain: The teachers that was there they did not stay very long they used to go from place to place.

Once upon a time Tom Keane and his wife lived in Mount Bruis. One day they were going to town to the markets to sell two pigs. The money he got for them he spent it and got drunk. When they were going home his wife was praying that God would open a gap for her then that night a storm came and blew the gable-end out of the house now said Tom "didn't God open a gap for you now.

will cure it. Wax is cure for a hak on your hand. Blue stone is a good cure for a wart. When you have a pain in your ear put wool and caster oil in to it and it will cure it. Lime juise and olive oil mixed up together is a cure for a burn. A cob web is a cure for a sprained foot or hand. Soap and sugar mixed up together is a good cure for a stone bruis When you have a pain in your head measure it and it will cure it.

Once there living in Shronell a very rich man by the name of Damer.
He was a very rich man and was a mean man. He used to have strong jail to keep people in. It was said he used to begrudge his wife her meals, and he had her locked up in a large castle in Mount Bruis

weed grows in a turnip field. First pull and bruis it out. Then rub the milk that would come out of it on them and it would cure them. Them the weed would be burnt.Herbs that choke crops. Chiken weed is to be found in a beet field. It is a very thick green weed. If one did not pull it would choke the beet.There is an other weed that choke turnips also. The name of it is "scutch". If it was left in the drills it would make the land bad and it would choke the crops. Too much manure is bad for it. Bishop weeds are to be found in gardens. They are big green ones. In gardens that would not be tilled it grows.

In the parish of Lattin in the townland of Ardivillane in Co. Tipperay there lived a great poet Matt Finnan. He joined the Fenian movement at an early age and was imprisoned two or three different times for his activity in that organisation. Each time he was freed he commenced his old behaviour again; having heard the police were again active he succeeded in deluding them and escaped to America. While in exile he spent a lot of his time making poetry most of them in favour of his native land particular his own native district and his people.
After some years abroad he returned to his native County and lived there for some time. He died twenty six years ago and is buried in Mount Bruis Cemetery about four hundred yards south of this school.

over from England and settled down in Clonmel. He was a very clever man, he bought land in the cheap times, and sold it in the dear times. He gained a lot of money. There is a man in it now by the name of John Hogan. He has a (man) farm in it. Damer gave some of the land to a deer and it is now called Deerpark. Damer's court was so big that is was called DamerVille.Damer was married and had a wife, and his wife was great for talking so he built a castle up in Mount Bruis, and locked her in and fed her on bread and water.

When Joseph Damer was building the Court in Deerpark 250 years ago he brought over six hundred School tradesmen and they used to live at Mount Bruis and go up across the fields every night when they would have their days work done. The Gaffer was a Scottish man. It used to take a man a month to cut one stone and one day a man was walking along the road so he saw all the men working at the building and went up to them and asked where was the Gaffer and the men showed him to the man he went to him and asked for a job. "A said the Gaffer I never saw a man looking for work without tools"
"I can get them on loan from the other tradesman" "I can't give you work. Joseph Damer was listening to the arguement so the man said that he could carve that big stone there in no time" Give him a trial sad Joseph Damer," I can't do, that said the Gaffer and after that he gave him a job to carve a big stone that was there and he got tools from the other tradesmen so he started working one week passed an

sterility. Joseph Damer 1628-1720 never married but there is a tradition that he would make wife of any woman who would bear him a child. Various Irish girls from around Mount Bruis, Shronell sought to become his lawfully wedded wife.
Leam Dall conducted an hedge school opposite John Damer Court for a number of year where Bill Donnells Cottage now stands + within 200 yards of Franklin's House which hpuse was built by Joseph Damer as abarracks for his cavalry escort. The school functioned while the escort were within 200 yards of it during the penal laws.
Michael Cahill, "Gratlur" a the Country home Cashell mountains Liam Dall was buried + born in Shronell + that his grandfather so informed him at the east side of a hawthorn bush.

About one hundred years ago there was no Parish of Lattin there. They were only the Parish of Shronell and Mount Bruis. They were no Churces o Catholic Schools at that time, Father Enright used be going back to Lattin saying Mass, he had no one to answer the Mass for him. One day he was saying Mass he asked all the women no were they able to serve Mass but none of them were not able. He send for Blind William Heffernen and he came, they were just in the middle of the Mass when in came flogging Fitzgerald and his soldiers with him. They surrunded the Chapel and Fitzgerald came in and he said to the priest who is this fellow with you Blind William spoke up and said he was able to speak for himself and he told them who he was, William prayed in Latin that Fitzgerald would get a bad death and that everyone like him would be swept out of Ireland and Fitzgerald went out the Mass in Lattin was nevr touched after.In Ireland in 1743 the people hoped that there would be a rising in Ireland. John Damer knew that Liam Dall Heffernen was advising the people to rebel, and he send for Liam Dall. Damer said to him that he was giving him a guide, the guide was a spy. Liam Dall was in dread that Damer would put him to jail, the why Damer was giving Liam Dall a guide because the guide would tell him everything Liam Dall would

la damhsa a chongbhail dó na tionnantai agus chuir sé cuireadh chuig aos óg na h-áite a theacht chuig an damhsa. Fuair clann ingeanach na baintreabhaighe cuireadh mar dhuine. Arsa an bhean a ba sine aca le n-a máthair, "A mháthair, ní sinne cóirighthe mar is cóir, caithfidh tú cultacha úra a fhághail dúin".
Níor labhair Cláirineach na Luatha. Tháinig oidhche an damhsa. Chuaidh an bheirt a ba sine feistighthe sá n-a gcuid cultacha úra. Nuair a tháinig coim na h-oidhche d'éirigh Cláirineach na Luatha. Bhain sí sgeamhóg as a gúna leis an t-siosúr, chuir sí an chíor i n-a ceann agus chuimil sí an bruis de na bróga mar chómhairligh an madadh beag díthe, agus i bhfaithteadh na súl thiompuigh sí i n-a mnaoi uasail comh galanta a's bhi ar an domhan. Chraith sí an srian agus siúd ar shiubhal í i n-a coisde éach go dtáinig sí go teach an damhsa. Ní rabh aon bhean annsin a bhí ionchurtha léithe le sgéimhe, le bréagtha agus le galantas. Dhaimhsigh mac an tighearna léithe rith na

"Tá croidhe fial agat". arsa'n madadh beag. "agus cuirfidh mise ar an eólas thú. An chead teach a chasfar ort nuair fhágfas tí mise buail ag an doras. Tiocfaidh bean an toighe im cómhraidh leat. Tá do bheirt deirbhshuirach i n-a dhá gcreig cloiche taobh amuigh de'n doras, de'n t-siocair go dteárn siad dearmad de'n rud a h-íarradh ortha a choimhead. Cuirfidh sí an obair céadna romhat-sa a chuir sí roimhe do chuid deirbhshúirach acht seo dhuit-se fídeóg agus nuair a rachas bunadh an toighe síos im t-seomra a sheinm ceóil cuir thusa an fhídeog in do bheal agus béidh ceól agat i bhfad níos deise no bhéas aca-san agus coinnigh súil ghéar ar an taosg. Tá ceithre neithe i n-a luighe i gcluid na mónadh agus níl dhios ag bunadh an toighe brígh ar bith a bheith ionnta. Glac thusa chugat féin na ceithre neihe sin. Srian siosúr, bruis agus cíor. Nuair a bhainfeas tú sgeamhog as do chota leis an t-siosúr tiocfaidh an coiriú ortha is deise bhi ar

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The Heffernans were the big people around here from 1641 - 1650. There was two familys one family lived in Quinlans farm at a gate known as the "White gate" and another family lived at the dairy house now owned by Michael Cussen and they owned all the land around Mount Bruis and the Heffernans (The Heffernans) that lived at the White Gate owned all the land from Lattin to Knocklong. Then Cromwell came to Ireland and when they were passing by the road, they were noticing the great land that was around here so a man by the name name of Joseph Damer and he said that he would look for some of it so he did and he got it. The Heffernans that lived at the White Gate were for King William and the Heffernans that lived at the Dairy house were for King James the way they could keep their land so King William won and all their land was taken from them and given to a Cromwellian soldier and the had to to to live opposite their cousins in a little plot of land and little house and the Heffernan man that lived at the Dairy house, joined King James's army and King Williams officers used to stay at their cousins a the White Gate after they leaving Diary house a soldier got it and it is said that Damer bought it because (go) Joseph Damer

all the men used to go and look at him so he said to of Joseph Damer to go away and not be looking at him or else build a shed and leave him work alone in it so Joseph Damer told the men to build a shed so they did and he carved the stone and after another two weeks he went to Joseph Damer and told him to come and see what he had done. Damer came and brought the workmen with him and he told them to take down the shed so they did and when they saw what he had done there were amazed to see a sow and a litter of bonhams and they wondered how he could have so much done in six weeks so while they were looking at him he got a chisel and hammer and he gave it a tip on the back of the sow and they broke into smithereens and Damer asked him why he broke it and he said that it was his own work and that he could do what he liked with it and he gave Damer back the money that he had payed him and he walked away and they and they never saw him again
When the Gaffer saw that the man had no tools he asked him was it with his fingers he would carve it.
It was Joseph Damer the first of the Damers to come that built Mount Bruis and the Court.

When Smith died he left it to his son and his son became a Protestant and he was left keep his lands. JOhn Damer came over to live in Mount Bruis. He was wanting Margaret Poe to marry him but she did not want him. One day he carried her up to the hill to show her all he had but she did not care. He wanter her to live with and when he would die he would leave her all but she wouldn't. He started building the Court to try to cox her, she went over to live in the Court but she did not stay there long she went away and then he went away as well. Then the Court began to fall when they were nobody living in it, the Court was a lovely building it covered an acre of ground a little of it only remains now.There was a famine in Ireland in 1740 the people used have to pay rack-rents to the land lords they had nothing to eat but potatoes, and green dog-leaves and they used turn green from eating them. And they could not eat anything, they used have to sell the eggs to pay the rent. In 1742 the crop failed the people were dying with starvation and cattle got very dear and the land-lord and his baillife avicted every one either they paid the rent or not. The people were dying in thousands and nobody to bury them and the dugs used come and eat their bodies. But the people were not to badly of in Shronell because Darner was killing a lot of bullocks because he was buillding the Court and he wanted to put the blood in the mortar. And he used to give all the people around Shronell and Lattin the meat of the cattle and Darner had a lot of men employed building the Court.

say. In 1745 Liam Dall and the guide were coming from Charleville they were crossing a trench the guide missed his step and he fell down in the deep trench. Liam Dall shouted for help but no help came, then Liam Dall thought if he when home without the guide. Damer would hang him because he would think he murdered him Then Liam Dall began to feel along the water with his hands for the guide, he caught him by the hair of the head and pulled him up. When they came back Liam Dall thought there would be a rising in Ireland but there was only a rising in Scotland and Bonnie Prince Charlie came back Damer was stiff and sacked the guide and left Liam Dall plough along the roads by himself nobody would guide him.There was war in Ireland in 1641 to 1651 and the Cromwellians were capturing all the cities. He had a lot of soldiers. One of them was Joseph Damer and the Stewards name was Smith. The Cromwellians passed the Cross of Shronell when they were going to capture the city of Limerick and Kilmallock castle Then the Cromwellians were putting out the Catholics out of their lands. Ireton asked a man there by the name of Heffernan if he wanted anything they would help him. Heffernan said to leave him as he was because he had a lot of land from Emly to Lattin, he said they were another man named Smith he said it was he that had helped him all. Ireton took it all down in his book when the time came he gave Smith a big lot of land. Jospeh Damer got a lot of land and he build a house in Mount Bruis. When he died he left it to John Damer he came over from Co. Dorset in England.

Brioscar - rubbish broken bits of anything
Bean-sidhe
Bodach - big fat rich man
Bodach ruadh - red codfish
Bodach dubh - black "
Bairneach - edible sea food
Bainbhín - young pig
Builg - bellows, sunken rocks over which sea swells
Buaile - milking enclosure
Bainín briocach - homespun flannel
Boc - blow, playboy
Bale - heavy shower
Builbín
Beag a (da) mhaith - good for nothing person
Brúis - a large number or quantity, a "brúis of children
Bramh [th] santa - snug, comfortable a b. house.
C.
Cailleach - old woman, old stumps of a tree, bundle of wrack towed after boat.
Cárnán
Crúb
Cruitínlach
Currach - boat, damp low lying land
Céilidhe
Cáman
Clugadan - fool, head of cabbage.
Croisín - cross piece at top of hand spade.
Clábar
Cal-leanngoch
Cruibin Crubog half creel.
Cró
Cuaille
Cipín
Cár - wry face, car
Cab - mouth
Cladach - Hearth of cobble stone, rocky shore
Clochan - stepping stones across river or stream.