Once the strong boys of Shronell gathered at the cross. This was the time of the general election. About 200 of them went up to set fire to the furzes. Some of them were Nashes more were Ryans and Hayes they had one barrel of tar and a bucket of oil that they stole from the County Council it took them one hour to get the barrel of tar up to the furs, and get the place ready. They had to go down to Nashes for matches the furzes were wet and could not lit.

You can still see the ruins of (of) Damer's Court between Lattin and Shonell. He was a candle maker who came over from Engl(ish)and and settled down in Clonmel. And got land in Shronell and brought over six hundred men from Scotland to build his house and there is a (a) bridge called the scots bridge. Damer was about the richest man in the world he had an army of his own and the land around his house was called a court.

Once there was a man living in Shronell named John Damer. He went down to a ailor in Ballyrohey to make a suit of clothes for him. So next day the tailor started to make them as good as he could. He took the suit up to John Damer and he asked to know how much were they. The tailor said no that if he would show him his gold. He took the tailor into the room and showed him the gold.

1. The ruins. On the road between Lattin and Shronell on a farm occupied by (G) John Hogan stands the ruins of an old castle. There are only two of the walls standing

Damer lived long ago in a place called Damer Ville between Lattin and Shronell and he had a lot of gold he used to hire men to shovel the gold and they used have to strip off and he used to watch them.

About twenty years ago a man a was going up to Téid oDwyers of Toor from Looby's of Deerpark a distance of about two and a half miles. And on his way he passed through the Cross of Shronell and then proceeded on his journeys when he was near the bridge of Ballinahow a cat came out of a field which was then owned by Paddy Mc Grath and which is now owned by the O Dwyers and said to hime "Oh man oh. when you go home, tell Moll Roe that Paul Duady is dead." The man was very angry

that live in Lattin, say they can put their heel on the place where the fire place was in the house.
When Joseph Damer was building the court he gave them about two acres of land after he robbing it from them before that. After that Liam's father got married the second time and he went to live in Ballyconree either on Danaher's land on the road between Lattin and Shronell or at the bridge over the river Ara on the Glenbrine road.
While liam was living with his step-mother she was treating him very harshly, so one day when his step-mother was grinding the wheat with the quern the wheat used to fall on the floor, Liam used to eat it, so when she saw him eating it she beat him for eating it and when his father came home that evening, Liam asked him was his own mother blind and his father said "Liam a leana why do you ask me that question". "A" said Liam "when my own mother used to be grinding the corn if it fell on the floor I could eat it but when my second mother was grinding it to-day she beat me when I ate it. There is Heffernans living in Sussex in England and they say that they are descendants of Liam Dall but they are not, they could be descended from Liam's father. Liam himself was never married, but he thought that he would be married to a girl in Shronell and he wrote a song about her "Eilís ó Srónfhaill". but she died and she was buried in Craobh Ruadh and he wrote another song about her after she dying and the

When Smith died he left it to his son and his son became a Protestant and he was left keep his lands. JOhn Damer came over to live in Mount Bruis. He was wanting Margaret Poe to marry him but she did not want him. One day he carried her up to the hill to show her all he had but she did not care. He wanter her to live with and when he would die he would leave her all but she wouldn't. He started building the Court to try to cox her, she went over to live in the Court but she did not stay there long she went away and then he went away as well. Then the Court began to fall when they were nobody living in it, the Court was a lovely building it covered an acre of ground a little of it only remains now.There was a famine in Ireland in 1740 the people used have to pay rack-rents to the land lords they had nothing to eat but potatoes, and green dog-leaves and they used turn green from eating them. And they could not eat anything, they used have to sell the eggs to pay the rent. In 1742 the crop failed the people were dying with starvation and cattle got very dear and the land-lord and his baillife avicted every one either they paid the rent or not. The people were dying in thousands and nobody to bury them and the dugs used come and eat their bodies. But the people were not to badly of in Shronell because Darner was killing a lot of bullocks because he was buillding the Court and he wanted to put the blood in the mortar. And he used to give all the people around Shronell and Lattin the meat of the cattle and Darner had a lot of men employed building the Court.

John Damer died in 1767, he was buried in a lead coffin in the north side of Shronell grave yard no head stone over him but nettles and weeds. He left the place to his brother in England, his brother came over and he got all his wealth and riches. After a while Joseph Damer his brother, went back to England again he locked up the Court, the people began to steal everything but he did

A long time ago there was a man living in Shronell. His name was Damer, and he was a great candle maker. He lived in a big house called Damerville the ruins of which can be seen on the right had side of the road between Shronell and Lattin.
One day he sent to Cashel for a barrel of tallow and on the top of the barrel there was tallow and the bottom of it was all gold. This made him very rich. He stored it in a special room, and he hired a man to shovel it. This man was searched every night before he left the room.
One day, he left the window open and a crow came in and took some of the gold in his mouth. He took it to his nest and it remained there a long time until the tree on which the nest was built, was knocked down. The people who found this gold became very rich.
When people speak of a very rich man in this district they say "he is as rich as Damer.

Cistí Óir i bhFolach
Tá a lán áit ann na fill óir na bhfolach a deirtear. Deirtear go bhfuil óir i bhfolach ins na h-áiteanna seo leanas – ( Aravale, Shronell, Bosehoidh)
Tá Magh Cara no Aravall timpeall leath míle ó mbaile Thiobrad Arann, agus tá crann beag ar an claoidh , agus deirtear go raibh óir fén claoidh
Lá ámhain do cuaidh scata fir amach rán agus thosnuigh ea ag romhar
Ní ró fhada a bhíodar ag romhar nó go tháinig turcaí mhór amach, agus mairbh sé beart den dear agus rith an chuid eile acu abhaile.
Tá Shronell timpeall ceithre míle ón baile, agus bhí fear ‘na comnaidhe’ dtigh ag ar gcros darab ainm Damer
Deirtear go raibh roinnt óir aige. Do cuir sé a cuid airgead ar capall rás agus do chiall an capall an rás agus bhí sé briste annsan

Par of Shronell, dis of Cashel
Townland of Shronell beg:
Teacher: John Fleming Protestant: Free school:
His renumeration from school = £20 and 1 acre of land.
Good thatched house, cost about £20
Pupils 4 boys and 4 girls (one of the boys being a protestant) I suppose he was the song the master or of a Damer employee) The Lady Caroline Damer gives the master one acre of land and the rector allows him £10 year annum and the house to live in, he also furnishes the school with books and all other requisites. The parish pays the remainder of his salary about £10

William O'Heffernan was known as Liam Dall O'Heffernan because he was born blind. He was a native of Shronell and one of the leading poets of the 18th century.For the greater part of his life he was a homeless wanderer and he was living on the charity of the people. His compositions are very popular. One of his best poems is Caitlín Ní Uallacháin.

Damer was a man who lived (in) Between Lattin and Shronell long ago he was a very man and was a miser. He seldom or ever bought food or ate his diner at home but when he got it for nothing.
He made a lot of money by money-lending if

About three quarters of a mile from Lattin to Shronell there stands the ruins of an old court belonging to Damer. It is so long built that there are only a part of it standing yet. The south wall and the west wall are there. He brought over men from Scotland to build it He had to build houses outside the court for them to live in.
But some of them went back to Scotland. Damer was a candle maker, he came

Once there living in Shronell a very rich man by the name of Damer.
He was a very rich man and was a mean man. He used to have strong jail to keep people in. It was said he used to begrudge his wife her meals, and he had her locked up in a large castle in Mount Bruis

Once upon a time there lived between Lattin and the Cross of Shronell a man by the name of Damer. He was very rich and had a lot of gold in a room. One day a man came to his door and went in. Damer came out and asked him what he wanted. The man said that he wanted to see his gold. So he took him up in the room when he came down, Damer asked him what good did (d) that do him, "A" said the man it did me as much good as it did you."

Liam Dall was supposed to be born blind but the older people said that he was not. He was a hedge schoolmaster on Green's double ditches. One day he was walking on the bound's ditch. He met a man and he said to himself how does he see where he is going. He went along and he met a golden woman and she said why are you blind I'am not said he she shone and shone till he was struck blind. Liam Dall went away and died after three days he is buried in Shronell grave-yard beside his enemy

About fifty years ago there was a severe storm called the big wind. It knocked trees it blew the rivers back it blew the seas in to the land and cut away all the soft land. And about four years ago there was a terrible (a terrible) thunder storm followed by lightning. It killed five calves and two horses in Tipperary. Also it killed two men in Cahir and knocked half of Shronell beg house and shook all the houses around. And six years ago there was a snow storm. It covered two foot of the ground. There was a motor-car snowbound ten yards from the top