School: Dúndroma (roll number 13818)
- Location:
- Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs Ester Jackson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0582, Page 142
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- (continued from previous page)the Multeen, which rises in the hills and then flows down towards Ballintemple where it joins the Blackbridge in Mr Ryan's land and then it flows in the Suir near Golden.
The oldest man in Ballintemple is Mr Huorihan. He is eighty - nine years and is a great fisherman. Every day when then is a flood in the river he goes fishing.
Ballintemple graveyard is very big and crowded. The most common name in it is O'Dwyer. There are some very old stones and some of them have fallen down There is a huge old vault in the middle covered with ivy and an old iron gate going into it. It is full of owls nests.
Near the graveyard is an old quarry with very high banks around it. The land in Ballintgemple is good. Both dairying and tillage and carried on. The houses are more numerous now that they were. Since the selling out of the Dundrum Estate about thirty years ago more have been built.
The townland got its name from the church which used to be in Ballintemple(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Robert Graves
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballintemple, Co. Tipperary
