School: An Cnocán Bán, Áth Treasa (roll number 12999)

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   most of the houses are thatch houses. There are old people over seventy living in the district . They tell stories in English. People like to listen to them. Some of them know Irish.
   Their names are Mrs. Thomas Lenihan, Mrs. Maurice Angland, Maurice Broderick, and Mrs.David Curtin, all of
   Meentinna,
   Rockchapel,
   Co. Cork.
   Meentinna means the big fire it was so called because the turf is very plentiful.
   Some of the land is good fertile land and more of it is boggy and bad.

   

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2. My Home District

   

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   The name of my townland is Rockhill. The name of the parish is Rockchapel and the barony is Duhallow. There are nineteen families in it. There are ninety people approximately in it. The houses are farmers houses, one story high, and mostly all of them ironed, except three two storey high slate houses. The townland got Rockhill as its name because it is

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ita Curtin

   Gender

   Female