School: Cnoc na Manach, An Mhainistir Bhán, Cionn tSáile (roll number 1391)

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1. The Whiteboys - Martial Law (continued)

   

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   state of terror. Scouts would be sent out to hasten the men homeward.

   

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2. Site of a Chapel at Dunbogue

   

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   Site of a chapel at Dunbogue, Belgooly, Kinsale. About fifty years ago some girls went searching for goats in the neighbourhood of Patrick McCarthy’s farm at Dunbogue about nightfall. As they stood at the entrance of the bóithrín leading to the farmhouse they heard close by on their left hand a jangling sound as if of heavy rosary beads. One of the girls on returning home told her grandmother. The old woman remarked “Ye heard the dead saying the Rosary. Often in the old days Mass was said on that very spot”. Bean Pádraig Uí Sheaghdha nac maireann d'innis an sgéal timeall ocht mbliadhain ó shoin.

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. penal times (~4,335)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Daniel Corrigan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Laharran, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Bean Pádraig Uí Sheaghdha

   Gender

   Female

3. The Fenian Movement

   

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   The Fenian movement appears to have been a more virile force in the towns and large villages than in the country districts even in the neighbourhood of British Garrisons (note that Judge Keogh called Ballincollig a hot bed of Fenianism) Practically all the young men in Crosshaven right through the parishes of Tracton and Nohoval were enrolled.
   On the other hand Ballymartle area was very weak.
   They were all warned by friendly policemen to get out of the country. One of these policemen was Sergt Hickey

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