School: Baldwinstown
- Location:
- Baldwinstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Ristéard Mac Plib
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0876, Page 346
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- (continued from previous page)County. No stories are told about it being attached at any time. The walls are standing to this day, and up until a few years ago the lofts were used to store corn.
Clonmines which is also very near here is very rich in the ruins of both churches and castles. In a few acres of land stands the ruins of three castles and two churches.
One of the churches was an Augustinian Abbey and was founded by the Kavanaghs about castle but the inside is a church.Clonmines is in the Barony of Shelburne and on the shore opposite Clonmines stand the ruins of Barrystown castle and also the silver mines of Barrystown. Barrystown is in the parish of Bannow and the Barony of Bargy. This castle was built by a man named Barry and hence it got its name. In the year 1840 the mines opened but owing to jealousy among the miners it was closed.
In Bannow there is a ruined church but it is not known was it burned or plundered
Bannow cemetry is around it and also in the ruins of the church. Strongbows wife - Eva is buried in Bannow, and her image is on the flat tomb which is over her.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Berna Parle
- Gender
- Female
