School: Baile Haodha (C.), Ráthluirc
- Location:
- Newtown Ballyhay, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs. Julia Herbert
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0374, Page 313
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- (continued from previous page)(Tobar Laictín)visited by many people who spend a long time praying there. Not far from Ballyhea Cemetery is a spring well Tubber-Lock-Deen. This well has been never known to run dry although during the Summer months a lot of people draw water from this well. Ballyhea Cemetery is beautiful. It has many fine head-stones erected there. There is an old abbey in the centre of the Church. There is a beautiful Monument in this Church erected by O'Shaughnessy. This man lived in Ballyhea years ago and he owned a mill at the eastern side of the railway crossing. That place now is still called the Mill Road.
In the townland of Cooline there is an ancient churchyard where there is also an Abbey. In the townland of Ballynoran Baile-an-Fhuaráin there is a spring well. "Tubber-na-Griolla. It is situated in a corner of four farms and a large drain or Strután is known as the Pola-Buídhe.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Debbie Quinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynadrideen, Co. Cork
