The townland is in the ecclesiastical parish of Lattin/Cullen and the school's Gaelic Athletic Association and religious affiliations are concentrated in Lattin.

[citation needed] Joseph Damer (1630–1720), an officer in Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army, was granted lands in Shronell in 1662.

[citation needed] In one of these tales, it is said that a local Irish language bard, Liam Dall Ó hIfearnáin (1720-1803), wrote that the Damer family would not survive in the Shronel district but that the Irish Heffernan (Ó hIfearnáin) clan would.

It is said locally that it was destroyed by those angry at Damer's misery at being surrounded by the poor of West Tipperary.

[8] What remained of the family fortune passed to Lady Caroline Damer, his daughter and sole heir, and later to the Earl of Portarlington.