School: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (B.) (roll number 1867)
- Location:
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Ceallacháin
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- Name - Castlelyons
Townland - Mohera
Parish - Castlelyons, Co. Cork
Barony - Barrymore
Number of families - about sixty.
Number of people - about three hundred
Most common name - Barry Most of the houses are slated now. There are still a good many thatched houses around the village.
The townland got its name from the Ó hÁtháin's[?] who had their castle there before the De Barry's came. John Daly, Castlelyons, is over seventy years of age. He is a shoemaker. He can tell stories about long ago.
There were far more houses in the village long ago. The majority of them are now in ruins. Not many people emigrated from Castlelyons to America, but when men were caught poaching salmon in the River Bride they used often go away to America before they were tried.