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

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   There is one man over seventy years living in the district. His name is Michael Murphy and he can tell stories. His address is Lyreneague,
   Rockchapel,
   Co. Cork.
   He knows some Irish.
   Houses were not so plentiful long ago. People emigrated to America.
   Some of the land is hilly and boggy and more of it is [ br ] good fertile land.
   There is no wood or lake in the townland, but there is a river. The name of it is the river Feale.

   

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2. My Home District

   

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   My home is situated in the townland of Knockanebane, which is in the parish of Rockchapel and in the barony of Duhallow. There are only four families in the townland. There are twenty people approximately in the townland. Three of the houses are thatched and one of them is slated. Knockanebane means the little white hill. It was so called because there is a hill which is one thousand, one- hundred and thirty feet high. In Summer time it is all spotted over with soft white flowers which are the blossoms of a coarse grass called '' canavanes,'' and that is why it was called

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Sheila Keating

   Gender

   Female