School: Berrings (Measctha) (roll number 4186)
- Location:
- Berrings, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Drisceoil
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“The projection of rock resembling a Priest's Head was probably caused by blasting operation when making the road now running by Carrig an Aifrinn.”
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- Daniel O' Driscoll
- Gender
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- Address
- Berrings, Co. Cork
- On the main road from Cork to Kanturk, via Cloghroe, Donoughmore, Barrachaurin & Banteer is a rock called the Vagabond Rock. This rock is in the parish of Inniscarra, and close to the former Cork and Muskerry Lt. Railway. It is said that in former times this Rock and the surrounding rocks were infested with robbers, so that farmers and others passing by the road adjacent to the Rock on their way to the City of Cork had their firkins of butter taken from them by the robbers, who having done so retreated into the rocks, or perhaps they often lay in wait(continues on next page)
