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School: Scairt (C.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4127)

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Scart, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Mrs R. Eager
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 336

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  1. The Local Roads (continued)

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    Those stepping stones also led to a boreen which would take you to the Castle Road a bye-road which leads to County Limerick.
    There are three bye-roads branching from Meadstown Cross one leads to Fermoy the other to Kildorrery all those roads join up with main roads.
    I cannot find any one to tell me when these roads were made but there was a man in Farrahy who broke stones about 60 years ago for five shillings a week.
    Ballynoe boreen which leads to the Kildorrery main road and the river is crossed by stones. There is a boreen not far from Farrahy and it is supposed to be haunted and it is called Makony's boreen.
    There is a bridge in Ballinguyroe called the "Goat's Bridge" and it is said to be
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. public infrastructure
          1. roads (~2,778)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Séamus Mac Cárthaigh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Informant
    Mr John Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68