School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)
- Location:
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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- About three hundred yards from the school in a north easterly direction there is a group of forts. On the morning of the sixth of March 1867. General Bourke came from America to Ballyhurst Co. Tipperary. All the Fenians gathered round the fort. It was supposed that no trains would run. The lines were supposed to be torn up. But however they were guarded and the British soldiers landed at Sunday's Well just down straight from our school. It passed off that no battle was fought only that General Bourke wounded one of his own men by accident.
- The Danes came to the hill of Brogue in the year 968. Brian Boru was going to Solohead to fight a battle with them. Brian won the battle. So after the battle Brian washed his wounds beside a well near Solohead and since then the district around it is called King's Well. At that time there was no town in Tipperary. The town was at Greenane about a mile outside the present town of Tipperary.
- Informant
- Richard Cummins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- St. Patrick met the Eognact at the hill of Crogue when he was on his way from Cashel after baptising King Angus. He was invited to Emly by St. Ailbe. As he was resting himself on the hill of Crogue mid(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John O' Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Patrick O' Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary