School: Béal Átha (Bella) (roll number 10334)
- Location:
- Bella, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0238, Page 041
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- (continued from previous page)The remains of the walls are to be seen yet and the remains of the moat.
Now this New Fay had no direct descendants so a man named O Darcy ? - General in the English Army, who lived on portion of the lands now owned by John Shanley got the Castle and all its surroundings through Englands Rule. In the present Graveyard of Kilnamanagh is a slab erected commerating his memory. O'Darcy ? is claimed as a Callow man. The Inscription is written in old English. The Church from which the graveyard got it's name and which was situated in the Graveyard was the old parish Church and even though the parish is sometimes called the Parish of Ballinameen it is really the Parish of Kilnamanagh. John Duignan better known locally as Bucky Dwyer was a friend of O'Darcy? and really lived on O'Darcy's? property, (now in J Shanleys posession). He committed suicide by cutting his throat. The place was supposed to be haunted - The old people used to testify to the fact that they saw Ghosts etc.
