School: Macha na gClaidhe (roll number 16086)
- Location:
- Maughanaclea, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Macháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0283, Page 406
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Maco na Claude: Parish Bantry: Barny = Bantry
Swelling Houses now = 20.In Maughanacles all the houses (in Maughanacles) are now 'slates' They were all thatches over 80 years agoMaco na Claide = "Plain of the Leprosy"
In olden times people from this place used to poach Salmon ( using lights at night time) in a river near Sunmanway Dome to meler further east. From eating this fish in abundances they got a disease which resembles leprosy. It is said that the diseased persons were then sent to a place 8 miles further north than maughanecles ( called Touren ma lour) is a kind of hospital. ( R.B There is a town land called Tourlrid na-lour 8 miles north of Maughanacles.Another version is Maco no gealaize = Meaning the moon a hoped plain. I don't of [..] know which is the more correct.Over 70 : living. There are 9 person still living who are over 70.Three of them speak Irish (two very well) and English also
The names of those who can speak Irish are as follows(continues on next page)
- Informant
- D.T. O' Leary
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Maughanaclea, Co. Cork
