School: Ringville, Slieverue (roll number 6621)
- Location:
- Ringville, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Síle de Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 008
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- The Parish of Glenmore
It formed one parochial union with Slieverue down to 1846 when it became a seperate parish. It takes in the entire of the parishes of Ballygurrim, Kilcoan, Kilbride
and Kilmokevoge and more than half of the civil
parish of Kilcolumb. Its area is 13.529 statute acres
Wm Den probably a son of Robert forfeited Busherstown
under Cromwell and was transplanted to Connaught in 1654.
A little to the north of the Churchyard is a well
called Tubber-athoggarth, or the Priests well which some
consider to have been holy, there is a tradition regarding it
St. Colman is the patron Saint of Ballygurrim, his feast
is 21st May. He is presumably identical with St. Colman
Lobhar (i.e. the Leper). of Mayo in the territory of the
Dalcassians, commerated (sic!) on the same day in the Martyrology
of Donegal.
The Forrestalls of Forrestallstown
The Forrestalls, an Anglo Norman Stock were landed
proprietors in Glenmore parish from an early date. They
were divided into four branches or families one of which
were seated in Forrestallstown another at Kilbride, a third
at Carrigloney and the fourth at Mullinahone.
The Forrestalls of Rochestown,
lately extinct are traced by O'Donovan in a pedigree to
a Captain Edmund Duff Forrestall who fought at(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Ellen Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Rochestown, Co. Kilkenny
