Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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1. Parish Boundaries - How Marked (continued)

   

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   not the middle of the stream, but the middle of the ditch. I cannot cut a tree on the ditch without my neighbour's permission; neither can he without mine. [The murder trial (Hogan and Hanley) wh. finished in Dublin on Sat 16/x/37 originated in a dispute about the tree who grew as the boundary between their farms]. The embankment to the east shows the former width of the stream OR the eastward limit of its meandering OR marks the brink of the monks' mill-9dam. It is quite evident from topographical features extant that this was formerly site of a ford. The greatest width of the stream,or of the dam, or of the ford or of the oscillation of the meandering stream was 70-80 yds.
   Following this stream down 1/2 mile from Toem, we find that it marks the boundary of neither field, farm, nor townland and that it is at present a few yards north of the boundary between Baronies of Killnamanagh and Clanwilliam.
   Which is which?
   The Sappers marked Butler's Fort as Knockauna stoneela (Vide Book1) older inhabitants hold that the great fort (marked A is the real Knockaun-na -stoneela, but possibly they base their claims on fact that A stands in townland of Knockane (pron. Cnocán) The Sappers classed "cloch a'phuill" (Co Carlow) as an Ogham!!!

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Location

   Toem, Co. Tipperary