School: Ballyhack Convent
- Location:
- Ballyhack, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An tSr Treasa
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0874, Page 105
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- (continued from previous page)nothing, determined however to interpret these doubtful words in his own sense.He despatched the vanguard early in the Spring of the year 1170 under the command of his uncle Hervey, under a company of ten knights and seventy archers, Raymond son of William, Lord of Carew, elder brother of Maurice Fitzgerald and grandson of Nestor (in the month of May) Raymond, nicknamed Le Gros, or The Fat, entered Waterford Harbour, and landed eight miles below the city, under the rock of Dundonolf on the East or Wexford side.Here they rapidly threw up a camp to defend themselves against attack, and to hold the landing place for the covenience of the future expedition. A tumultuous body of natives, amounting, according to the Norman account, to three thousand men, were seen swarming(continues on next page)
