School: Cromadh (B.)

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1. Unofficial Names in the Parish of Croom and Neighbourhood (continued)

   

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   and part of the corner of the main building. The "vault" is roofed with large heavy slabs of limestone. The hill: Cnoc na nGráinsí with I suppose, much of the surrounding lands was a "plow-land" of Mainistir an Aonaigh and is merely a smooth and gentle elevation in the plain between Druim Asail and Fiodh Damair. I am at a dead loss for "na Webbina"

   
   COONA S'ALEE = ? Cúinne Sailighe / a field in the farm of Mrs. Hartigan Garrane Manister, and to all appearances part of the battle-site of Manister October 1579. The name is nearly gone.

   
   CLOCHÁN DUBH

   
   ( Nuair do sgriobas an giota so ní raibh fhios agam go raibh an ainm "Clochán Dub" ar an mappa ach chím anois go bhfuil D. O.C.)

   The bridge, built in 1845, over the Camóg on the Croom-Bruff road. It is the junction of the parishes of Croom and Banogue. There was formerly a ford there and there is a tradition here that at the ford many robberies and murders took place. On the south side of the bridge and branching off the main Croom-Bruff road is an old highway now briar-grown, where not entirely lost. This road passes over Tulach Finn almost at its summit and losing and finding itself alternately may be traced to the graveyard at Boherard or slightly beyond it. It is there, as far as I can see becomes merged in the modern road to Bruff. It is said here in Croom that the local people went by that route to Cork with butter and that they were often robbed

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   History Edit

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Location

   Croom, Co. Limerick

   Collector

   Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir