School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)
- Location:
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shíthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0318, Page 313
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- The place-names around Macroom are:- Cill Gobnatan, which means Abby's graveyard is so called because when St. Abby was on her way to Ballyvourney she knelt here, and the place is now used as a burial place for baby's.Catiar-Céagáin means Egan's city. It is so called because when Bishop Eoin Mac Egan was on his way to Carraig-a-Droicead to be hanged he prayed here.Cliain-Droiocead means a meadow crossed by a bridge. We owned the meadow, and the bridge under which the river Foherish flows was built through the middle of it.Carraig-an-ime means the rock of the butter. It is a parish situated about four miles north of Clondrohid.Carraig-a-púca means rock of the fairies It is situated about two miles south of Gurrane village. It was so called because a deep hole known as the "fairies bed" is situated in the townland. Many visitors visit Carraigaphooka castle.Cnoc-an-Bufrinn means the hill of the Mass(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Síle Ní Clúmháin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Clifford
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardmore, Co. Cork
