School: Bredagh Glen (roll number 14635)
- Location:
- Bredagh Glen, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 107
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- The Friars bridge is across the bridge Bredagh Glen river which leads from Bredagh Glen to Terryrone. It is built of flat flags. It is an old bridge and it is about eight feet high and about four feet wide. On the Terryrone side of the river the brae is very steep. It is about two and a half miles from the mouth of the river.
The Friars bridge is very useful on a wet day for children to get across when they are coming to school and for people coming across to the shop also. This bridge got the name of the Friars bridge because a Friar was drowned there long ago. There are iron rails on each side of the bridge. Some of the Terryrone people that are going to Moville on the bus come across the Friars bridge.
- Collector
- Anna Ní Bharr
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Donegal
