School: Béal Átha hUbhla (C.) (roll number 3998)
- Location:
- Ballyhooly, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chaoimh
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- (continued from previous page)Castle owned all the land around.
When dying he divided it among his three sons - Philip Laurence and Aileen.
In Ballymaclaurence there are eight houses all occupied except one.
There are about twenty people altogether living in the townland. - This townland is on the Blackwater Bank Six houses and about twenty inhabitants are in it.
- Cregg is about three miles from Ballyhooly between the latter place and Fermoy.
There is a Castle built on a high rock and from that rock the townland gets its name.
There are ruins of a monastery in a field but nobody knows when it was built or where the monks went.
There is only a piece of the walls now left.
Near Cregg is Templenoe.
There was a Church there and also a small village.
There is no sign of the Church and nobody knows where it was.
There was a public house there which was closed because a soldier was killed there about 80 years agoNear Templenoe is Ballynoe.
There were many farmers living there but they all left in the Famine years.
Long ago a bull was heard bellowing by people passing through in the middle of the night although nobody in the townland posessed a bill(continues on next page)