School: Cluain Fhiadh (B.), Carraig na Siúire (roll number 1857)
- Location:
- Clonea, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Liam Ó Heireamhóin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0654, Page 151
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- (continued from previous page)and that is covered with ivy. During the penal times Cromwell came along that way and he beheaded all the monks except one He threw the heads into a little stream flowing down by Mothel creamery and the place is now known as Ath na gCeann or ford of the heads. The monk that escaped was caught in Grays farm of Ballinacurra and killed. A priest saying mass appears where the monk was killed every hundred years. There are people buried in Mothel up to the present day.There are the remains of the walls of a church in Knockatirney. This seems to be the oldest ruin of all as there is only a couple of bits of walls and the holy water font to be seen. The last man to be buried there was a man by the name of Walsh from the parish of Fews who was drowned while crossing the river, Uisce Soluis which flows a few fields away from the old church. This church is supposed to(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Patrick Cusack
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Monminane, Co. Waterford
