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School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)

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Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
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E. Blackburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 286

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    A castle.
    About a quarter of a mile from this school, in the parish of Tydavnet, Ballinode, Monaghan was a beautiful castle long ago, in the townland of Tullaghan. This castle belonged to a man named Mr Foster. There were fifty two windows in ti, the same number of windows as there are weeks in the year. There were iron bars half way up the windows and bolted at each side. It was three storey high and had a lobby. There was a wine cellar and a whisky cellar for keeping the drink cool. There are underground passages in a hill called "The mound". They run from the house, to the top of "The Mound". There were steps out of the kitchen down to the cellars. The stones of the castle were drawn up to Clones to build Thomson's house of Clonvar. The two cellars
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mc Clean
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Tullaghan, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Joe Sullivan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Occupation
    Labourer
    Address
    Tullaghan, Co. Monaghan