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  1. An Old Castle

    CBÉS 0973

    Page 234

    There was an old castle in Drumhome. The round piers are there to this day on which the gates were hung at the entrance to the castle. On a bright summers day you can see the bricks in the river at the ford of which the castle was built.
    Owen Roe O Neill was supposed to have stopped on his way to his castle at Lough Oughter.
    Until recently the site of the castle covered with daffodils
  2. Local Place Names

    CBÉS 1031

    Page 236

    In the parish of Drumhome and in the townland of Ballinagippen, there is a place Brownhall. It is the residence of Captain Hamilton. There is a place called Peter’s Leap in Brownhall. It is called Peter’s Leap, because a man called Peter Carron leaped into a hole there and ever afterwards it held this name.
    In the same place there is a cave called The Piper’s Cave. It is called The Piper’s Cave because at one time there was an old piper who went up to a wedding in the residence.
    When he was going home he lost his way. People say that when he was a week missing, he was heard under the ground playing his pipes. The Tune he played was “The Farther in the Deeper.”
  3. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0973

    Page 011

    Hidden Treasure
    Writte by Rosena Hannigan Cullenbra (Castletara Cavan)
    Collected from Edward Hannigan Cullenbra Castletara Cavan
    There is a Treasure hidden in the townland of Drumhome Ballyhaise. It is supposed to be a barl of silver and a barl of gold. It is on the top of a hill at a castle. It is supposed to be rold into the tunl.
    It was Owan Roe O Neills castle and Treasure. He hid the gold and silver because the English was going to confiscate his land.
    One day Tom Roake ? went to look for it. He got a cart of breks from the mouth of the tunl. He could not go any further with water.