School: Drumbaragh (roll number 10801)
- Location:
- Drumbaragh, Co. Meath
- Teachers: M. Brighid Bean Uí Draoighneáin
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- (continued from previous page)on the fair green and an effigy of Mr. Nicholson burned. The rhyme was then recited–
“We travelled to Drumbaragh,
And round by Distanrath.
‘Till we made a handsome target,
Of the “Tory of Balrath.”I got this from James Grimes, aged 71, who has now been reinstated, along with his family in a farm in Distanrath. He says that Father Nicholls, P.P., at the time of the eviction owned a farm adjoining the land he has now. The remains of Fr. Nicholl’s house are still there. James Grimes says he found a number of little pipes and turf and a hearthstone in the ruins of the old house of Fr. Nicholls.- Collector
- Josephine Thornton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Informant
- James Grimes
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Balrath Demesne, Co. Meath