School: Tobar Colmáin, Ráthluirc (roll number 8930)
- Location:
- Saint Colman's Well, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bean Uí Aoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0497, Page 383
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- (continued from previous page)coming to school, as well as people coming to Mass on Sundays. From Fort East there is an old road leading from there, through Fort-Middle to join the main road from Ballygran to Charleville about a quarter of a mile North West of the school. This is also used as a Mass-path but it is wide enough to allow a horse and cart to travel on it. In this way it is different from the Clonmore Mass-path. Discussed Roads
In this district there are a few "double-ditches". The older people say that these were the roads of very ancient times. There is one which separates two farms in Fort Middle. It consists of an embankment about ten feet wide and six feet high. The top of this double-ditch is wide enough for a horse and cart to travel on, but no one remembers seeing it used for that purpose. It is almost closed in with briars and bushes, except for about a hundred yards at the end extending to the Ballygran Charleville road. At this end the double-ditch is used as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jack Reidy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortroe, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Michael Drew
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Gortroe, Co. Limerick
