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School: Druim Mór (roll number 11901)

Location:
Dromore, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Ó Conghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0944, Page 208

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    only that but the stones were vanishing after a few days of this they decided to sit up and see what was happening.
    Midnight came and suddenly a black pig was seen swiming towards Mullandoe. Up he came to the wall that had been built that day and hacked at it until he had it down. He then started to swim across the lake towards Mac Mahons castle with a stone in his mouth each time. St Maeldoid took this as a sign that a church was not to be built there so he abandoned the idea. The old town of this district was at Mullandoe. But when the planters came and Lord Blayney built the castle in the Demesne the site of the old
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ita Conlon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dromore, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    James Conlon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    46
    Address
    Dromore, Co. Monaghan