School: Scoil na mBráthar, Tuaim
- Location:
- Tuam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Duinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0027, Page 0274
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- (continued from previous page)There are two walls around the tower, so that when an army would attack them they would be able to protect themselves when they would be in danger of being beaten. They would go to the second wall and then into the tower and surrender. On the side of the hill there is a castle where the king and chiefs used to live. But the castle is in ruins now. There is a lot of passages through the castle and it was very high , there is a well beside it and it is very deep. There is a path up to the top of the hill whwere all the people used to go up to the grave and to the castle. The people say there is a lot of ways through the castle so they could go into the different ways when the would be fighting, and go firing arrows from the top of the castle.
- Collector
- Seán Ó Seoigheach
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tuam, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr J. Joyce
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Tuam, Co. Galway
