School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 512)
- Location:
- Midleton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Seosamh
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“Ballinacurra House is occupied by Mr Andrew Roland...”
(continued from previous page)of a Crucifix to be seen still. This wall is overgrown with ivy.
There is a cellar in the old wing of Ballinacurra House, and even in daylight, one has to bring a light in to see anything. It is said that the monks of old kept wine and valuables here. There is a passage leading from the house to one of the fields, probably an escape in time of danger.
Above information supplied by Madge Connor who got it from her sister, & by Kathleen Lear, who got it from her father Mr H. O'Sullivan, Ballinacurra, Midleton.- The following information was supplied by Eileen O'Keeffe, the Mill Road Midleton, who got it from her Aunt. The Aunt was told the tale by her mother: - In the Famine years, there was situated at the top of the Mill Road, a row of sheds. Into these sheds, all the poor people of the town were put. It is told that a priest used come + feed them. & that the people were dying of starvation. As the same time a ship full of Indian meal was sent to the starving Irish, but, the English sunk it outside Cove Harbour. Most of the unfortunate people died.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinacurra, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Eileen O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Midleton, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Jer Looney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinacurra, Co. Cork