School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There was a castle one time down at Dunree was there about seventy years. There a place the bottom of the castle called the celler where the prisoners were put. There was a police man killed in it one time. He fell down from top in to the celler and was killed.
There was a castle down at strigill. It about twenty years ago and there were princes in it. And some of them were poets and the poetry and one time the fell out about which of them could make the best poetry and one was killed.
There was a round tower down at Dunree. It there long long ago. There was two monks at it and it was built with breaks and stones it was toped with siment. There was a great giant wall round it to keep horses and cows from going in to it. - There was a castle out in the back of Achawheel Hill(continues on next page)
