School: Dúndroma (roll number 13818)
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs Ester Jackson
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- Dúndroma - Dundrum.
This place is called Dundrum and there is an old story how it got its name.
Some soldiers came marching along the road beating a drum. When they got to Dundrum Cross the drum broke and ceased to beat. The soldier laughed and said, "It is a done drum." Ever since the place has been known as Dundrum.Others, however, say that it is called Dundrum because of a dun or fort that was on the side or top of the high hill near it. But the fort can never be traced. Possibly some of the settlers destroyed all traces of it before the woods were planted.
- Collector
- Bella Carter
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Carter
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
