School: Teampoll na Carraige, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 15947)
- Location:
- Templenacarriga South, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Peadar Seymour
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0387, Page 158
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- The name of the townland in which I live is Ballyspillane. This townland was a parish in it self long ago but now it is joined up with the parish of Midleton. Ballyspillane is about three miles from Midleton. There are about one thousand acres of land in it and it is good fertile land. Also there is a lot of trees in it and some of it contains bog, hill and glen. Once upon a time there was a church near the graveyard and the ruins are yet to be seen. There was a monastery in Ballyspillane and monks lived in (?) and from the monastery to the graveyard there was a passage but now it is closed in and cannot be seen. There were twelve acres of an orchard there in years gone by and the cider was made of the apples. The store where the cider was made of the apples, it was my father knocked it about twenty years ago, as he worked at (-) time for Mr Geany, the owner of the land it was built on. There is a field in Ballyspillane called "the Camp Field" where the Fenians(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Brían
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyspillane East, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyspillane East, Co. Cork
