School: Ballylusk & Glenealy
- Location:
- An Baile Loiscthe, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teachers: Bean Uí Bhroin Seán de Barra
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- In the townsland of Ballynagrane about 1½ miles S.E. of Glenealy, there are some mounds and ruins. This is said to be the ruin of a Castle owned by the Leinster King Dermot McMorrough. A legend tells that when he abducted the wife of O'Rourke - Princess of Breffni - it was to this lonely castle he brought her. She was afterwards rescued by the army of Rory O'Connor the Ard Rí, after Dermots flight to England. Even the children round here speak of "the old castle".
- Informant
- Seán Ó Broin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80