School: St Mary's Tallaght (roll number 10457/8)
- Location:
- Tallaght, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chuinn
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- (continued from previous page)the monks had baked to help the starving people of the district. A road now passes over what was then the monastery, and its farm. In those days the road went through fields at the entrance of which now stands the Post Office and forge.
There was, at this time, also, a "green" at the top of the village, a small portion of which is still to be seen and on it stands "the village pump." To this "green" came "merchants" or "tinkers" as they'd be styled to-day. A sort of camp was pitched, and those "merchants" pillaged neighbouring farms. They were constantly driven away, but at length, some of them, finding they could make out a living in the place, settled down and so, by degrees, the "settlement" developed into a "village".In the grounds of the present monastery there grows a walnut tree, which tradition tells was planted by St Melruin.About a mile and a half outside the village is "Tallaght Hill" -the hill so famous in Irish history.On turning to the right before entering the village, one can, by walking about a mile along the Greenhills Rd., arrive at Kilnamanagh.(continues on next page)
