School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile (roll number 4572)
- Location:
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. De Pazzi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0320, Page 048
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- (continued from previous page)was probably the foundation of something like a Gaelic cross.
Excavations have yet to be made on the foundations south of the church.
Tobar na Caerrge. South of the Chíll and on low ground is a large deep well of which rounds were formerly made. The principle reason why rounds were discontinued was because a woman was found drowned in it. It appears she had fallen into the well head-foremost.
The common name of the well is "Tobar na Caerrge." I heard a girl of very tender years who lived closed by calling this spring the Teampuileen. In what way she got such an uncommon name I cannot imagine.
- It is in a rock but not in a stone. It is in a narrow but not in a bone. It is in the Church but not in the steeple. It is in the Priest but not in the people.
Ans. The letter R. - Collector
- M. O' Driscoll
- Gender
- Unknown
