Protestant drum is still beating strong in Border village
Residents in Drum, Co Monaghan, are eager to protect their culture and traditions
Jim Mills, Mervyn Reilly, Angela Graham and Alan Madill at their Protestant Hall in Drum, Co Monaghan. Photograph: Lorraine Teevan
To get to Drum in Co Monaghan – reckoned to be the Republic’s only totally Protestant village – you have to go off the beaten track, and then go off it again.
In rolling drumlin country, whence the village got its name, it’s near Cootehill and Newbliss and not far from the Tyrone Guthrie writers’ and artists’ centre in Annaghmakerrig.