School: Gort an Locha (roll number 1414)
- Location:
- Gortalough, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: S. Ó Docraigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 651
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- (continued from previous page)and in 1652 it was in the hands of Sir William Taaffe who, as was stipulated in the surrender of Drumrush to the victorious Cromwellians was, with his company to be admitted to the benefits of [say] said articles on the surrender of Ballinafad.
The castle being a recent erection, continued habitable after the other old castles of the country, except than of Ballymote which was in private hands, had fallen into ruins, so that all the county Sligo Chancery inquisitions of Charles I were held either in this Castle or in the abbey of Sligo the number held in each of these places being about equal.
We learn from the Cromwellian Census of 1659, that in that year Henry Hughesgent, was the Titulade of Ballinafad, that the population of the village was thirty two (nine English, and twenty-three Irish) and that the number of soldiers and solders' wives in the castle was twenty four (eleven English and thirteen Irish).
The ruined castle fo Ballinafad, presents a beautiful picture, on a fine Summer's evening when thrown on the(continues on next page)
