Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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   “This night myself and Mat Duggan were going home from cuarduigheacht...”

   

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   certain spot in the fort. He got the spade this night & began to dig. He hadn;t gone far when he met the flag. When hey lifted it up they found a crock of bones. If they had the presence of mind to slip a florin with a cross on it into the crock, they had the gold all right.
   [Unfortunately this {?] urn of Bronze Age was not preserved or reported.
   Florins were first minted in time of the Famine. That of---------- was known as the Godless or Graceless coin because the words DEI gratis were omitted from the legend]
   This cnocán was of sufficient importance to give a name to the townland (

   

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2. Tomdonan

   

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   Calendar of Judiciary Rolls 28 Ed 1. (page328): -

   A.D.1300: Common pleas at Kilmohallock before John Wogan on Tuesday after the octave of Holy Trinity
   Limerick: Assise of Novel disseisin.
   If Rich. Calfe and Water le Ken disseised.
   Jordan son of Jordan Dikleston and Annabilla his wife of their freehold in TOMDONAN.

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Seosamh Hammersley