School: Derrydamph
- Location:
- Derrydamph, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Lundy
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- (continued from previous page)that is was probably a place where the women folk went to wash the clothes with a beetle as this was a common practice in these parts in olden times.
- There are two mounds of earth shaped like graves at the bottom of Mr William WIlson's field beside Skeagh lake.
It is said in this district that these mounds are the burying place of two friars who swam across the lake when Skeagh Castle was beseiged by Cromwell's soldiers.
The Friars were then captured and killed and their bodies are supposed to be buried on this spot.
This plot of ground at the bottom of the field is never tilled now adays.- Collector
- M. Lundie
- Collector
- Nancy Wilson
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Mc Caffery
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Skeagh, Co. Cavan