About twenty years ago, a poor woman (Mrs Ryan) from Curreeny, who was regarded as an illiterate, was going to the village of Dundrum in Co. Tipperary. About a mile from Dundrum there is a district called Mount Garbery and when she was passing through it she says to her companions, “well now we cannot be very far from Dundrum for we’re now going through Mount Calvary”.

Dundrum, but closed after being held a couple of times.

(a) Dundrum: One day as Cromwell's army was marching past Dundrum the drummer boy broke the big drum and the people said it was a "done drum". That is the reason the village is called Dundrum.

Dúndroma - Dundrum.
This place is called Dundrum and there is an old story how it got its name.
Some soldiers came marching along the road beating a drum. When they got to Dundrum Cross the drum broke and ceased to beat. The soldier laughed and said, "It is a done drum." Ever since the place has been known as Dundrum.Others, however, say that it is called Dundrum because of a dun or fort that was on the side or top of the high hill near it. But the fort can never be traced. Possibly some of the settlers destroyed all traces of it before the woods were planted.

Dundrum is so called, for long ago a band of people were playing a drum, and the drum broke; ever since it was called Dundrum.Bishopswood near Dundrum, got its name from a man named Bishop, who used to live there, and that portion of the wood is said to be built near, where he used to live.The Deer Park in Dundrum, is so called, for long ago that part was walled in for deer and hare shooting, and is where the Big Wood is now situated.
The Marl bog in Garryduff West, Dundrum, Co. Tipperary, got its name, owing to all the Marl which was taken out of it.The Duck Pond in the Marl Bog, Garryduff

The chief family in this district of Kilnamanagh Lower, before the coming of Cromwell, was the O'Dwyers. They owned castles and land. One of their castles was built in the town - land of Garryduff East in what is still known locally as the Castle Field on the land of Mr John Price near the village of Dundrum.
When passing through South Tipperary after the surrender of Clonmel by Owen Roe O'Neill, Cromwell entrusted the capture of the O'Dwyers stronghold to a certain Captain Maude. The O'Dwyers fled after setting fire to their castle or, according to others, after its capture by the Cromwellians.
Captain Maude received all the land in the neighbourhood. He built Dundrum House not far from the site of the O'Dwyers Castle, no trace of which now remains. The Maudes kept a big estate around Dundrum House, but some of the land was let to Irish farmers at the usual high rents.
Some of the tenants bought out their land under the Ashboure Act of 1885. Sometime later the last of the Maudes, Earl de Montalt, and his family, after dividing the remainder of the estate and selling Dundrum House left the country. The forestry department took over the woods and have since planted more.
The Nuns of the Presentation Order in Thurles later purchased Dundrum house. In part of it they keep a Domestic

When Uaids the landlord was in the townsland of Dundrum, Tipperary Father Sheely was said to have said something against him and when Uaid heard it he braight him to court and he wanted the priests head to be put up on a spike on the Black Bridge at Dundrum for the crows to eat it but before his head was cut he said "that he would not have crows to eat and until Mauds death a crow never went into his field

Philip O'Dwyer was chieftain of the Kilnamanagh clan in the time of Cromwell. When Cromwell came to Ireland he went to Drogheda and later on he visited several other towns. Eventually he came to Golden and he went to Dundrum from Golden. The O'Dwyer Clan had their cheif stronghold at Dundrum, in the parish of Knockavilla, Co. Tipperary.

was hanged near this place and his head was put on a spear outside Clonmel barracks and his sister came to see it and while she was looking at it a great wind (swept and) blew his head in to her apron. Maud in Dundrum said it would make a lovely crow's nest. The people say that the crows never built their nests in Dundrum until the nuns came and lived there.

Long ago in 1649 when Cromwell invaded Dundrum the Dwyers of Kilnamanagh would give no surrender to him. They went out into the Cashel field which is now the property of James Heffernan of Dundrum and buried in the field thousands of pounds. Nobody ever heard tell of it since and nobody could find the hiding place although it is said that many a man during the Mauds time looked for it and failed to find it.

We live in the townland of Garryduff West in the parish of Ballintemple, barony of Kilnamanagh Lower.
The village of Dundrum is in Garryduff East, but we nowadays seldom or never hear of eigther Garryduff East or West for the district is all called Dundrum, and the parish also often gets the same name.
The Guards Barrack, the Golden Vale Hotel, the Doctors' House are all in Garryduff West. Besides there are a few small farmers houses.
In the village of Dundrum there are sixteen houses and about sixty of a population. The parish church and Rectory are near the village. The houses are all slated and are all more are less modern.
The people are farmers, shopkeepers, and foresters. The land is inclined to be wet.
The woods are the great feature of Dundrum, and they make it a beauty spot.

Colonel J. Hunt won many medals and honours quite recently. He started in the ordinary ranks and rose to be a colonel. He got the D.S.O., M.M., M.C. and was a K.C.M.G. he was also given foreign honours.
There was a man who was supposed to be able to put a ton of stones on a lorry in three loads.
His name was Mr Moran.
Alice Lowe is a noted dancer in Dundrum. She live in Beaumont Ave Churchtown Dundrum Co Dublin,
She won about fifty medals and several cups for her dancing.
She was taught the dancing in the Carnegie Library in Dundrum. I do not know who taught her. There are not many noted dancers in Dundrum.
There is a noted Irish Poet called W.B. Yeates. He sometimes comes to Churchtown to visit his sister and niece. The best known of his works in the "Lake Isle of Inisfree. He was

There are many place-names in Dundrum and around about, which are so called because of a happening, a person, or its situation.Dundrum is situated in a valley and there is a castle which is on the height so Dundrum is called the Fort on the Ridge.Dundrum used to be the fort which commanded the pass from the mountains to the city.Ticnock means the House on the Hill because there is a house which stands alone on the hill.Churchtown is so called because of the Church. It is a very old church. It is called St Nahi's Church because of the Saint and the parish gets it name from it Teac Nahí Támhnaigh.A long time ago there were many mills along the Dodder banks. So the place is called Milltown. The remnants of the mills can still be seen.

About two hundred yards the village of Dundrum there is an old quarry beside a field in which the ruins of

to move and after half an hour's delay the horses were taken out and farm horses put in but to no purpose as they would not move either. Eventually the coffin was taken indoors and the hearse sent away. Next day a hearse arrived from Tipperary the coffin was put in and the four horses moved off at once. Late that night three farmers living within a couple of miles of Dundrum visited the vault and on opening the lead coffin found bricks there instead of the mortal remains of Sir Thomas Maude. Tradition has it that the body was put into a cup-board and the place sealed up. Such a cup-board was found bricked up when the Presentation Nuns in Thurles bought the mansion. Strange to relate when the estate was divided among the tenants and the Maudes were gone for ever the crows began to build their nests there again. After the death of Maude the figure of a man's head grew on a tree at the Black-bridge near Dundrum. Tradition has it that the features are exactly like that of Sir Thomas Maude.

At the trial of Father Sheehy in Clonmel during the penal days the grand-jury was composed of Sir Thomas Maude of Dundrum, Bagwell of Greenfield and several others. Maude said he wanted Father Sheehy's head to make a crow's nest in his demesne and Father Sheehy replied that a crow would never again build her nest there while a Maude remained in Dundrum. When the trial was over Father Sheehy foretold a terrible ending to the members of the jury especially Maude. He said the latter would grow a tail and when he did that the horses would refuse to draw the hearse. Old Maude actually did grow a tail and his life was such a misery he died short after. A hearse and four horses were ordered from Cashel to convey the remains to the family vault to Ballintemple half a mile distant. There was great consternation when the horses refused

The following story of the banshee has often been told by my mother who had heard her Father tell the story and vouch for it's truth. Near the railway bridge at Goldengarden about two miles from Dundrum lived a family named Cooney. Whenever any member of this family was going to die, the banshee was heard for two or three nights crying. Then the neighbour's knew that one of the Cooney's was near death. A nephew of Tom Cooney the owner of the farm named Pierce Whelan was going to America, and the Uncle walked with him along the railway line to Dundrum Station to see him off. My Grandfather who was a boy of fifteen at the was fencing near the railway line with his father as they passed, and Pierce paused to bid them good-bye. When the two men had passed out of sight my Grandfather was startled to hear a woman crying and

clearances.
The last of the Maudes to reign in Dundrum was Sir Robert Cornwallis Maude the sixth Viscount who died in 1908. Under the Land Act of 1903 the estate was divided in 1908 and the Great House became the property of the Presentation Convent, Dundrum. Many of the descendants of the people who were evicted during the Hawarden Clearances received grants of land on the estate and new houses were built for them.

This school was built in 1824 by an aunt of Earl de Montalt for the children of all the tenants and servants on the Dundrum Estate. The present schoolroom and the room which is now used as a Court House were both filled for a number of years. The landlord paid the teacher and he had the residence as well as the grass of a cow and other perquisites.
No records of the school during this period are available. When the land troubles started, and the tenants went into the Land Courts to get high rents reduced, the landlord and his family were displeased. They thought that the Dundrum tenants should not have gone to court In retaliation the school was closed.
The protestants of Dundrum, having no school for their children, erected a wooden building in the churchyard, and that was opened under the National Board in August 1889.
The landlord turned the schoolrooms and teacher's

There are not many heroes around here.
There was one called Tim Crowe who lives in Bishopswood, Dundrum. He ran a great many big races.
He ran a Marathon race from Dublin to Dundrum. He also was a great cyclist. He cycled from Galway to Dundrum in four hours.
The first time he went to Dublin Mr. John Howard was with him. Before the start of the race the Dublin men asked "Who is the little plough boy" Tim Crowe heard them and said "Ye'll soon know what a little plough boy can do" He came in in first in the race and John Howard Ballintemple, Golden, came second.
Tim used to go out training every morning and had a track round the field. He does not run any races now.