School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 347
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- (continued from previous page)the same gentleman's farm and lies about 400 yards north of the eminence known here GENERALLY as Dulas Hill, marked on the ordnance map (6" to 1 mile, sheet 38, Co. Limk.) as "Knockaunevora" (? Cnocán Ui Mhórda) and known (as far as I have been able to trace) to only one man - Mr Thomas Lynch, Ballygrennan Croom - as Knockavoorna (? Cnoc Ui Mhúirne). I have thought it worthwhile to note the likeness, and at the same time great dissimilarity between the name on the ordnance sheet and the name by which it is known to a man whose father, quite recently deceased at 88 years, was born under its shadow, and who was a very intelligent man. An old roadway (?) past this hill on which is a graveyard more extensive than suggested in the outline on the ordnance sheet mentioned, as was discovered when making foundations for heavy concrete piers at a point on the fence, west-south west (on the map), of the enclosure.
THE SÚILÍN is the name given to a well at the junction - almost - of the "new road" through the "divided" land of Carrigeen, and the main road. Carrigeen through Donoman to Kilfinny. It is on the main-roadside. Near it is the old road that led northeastward to Beal-Átha-na-hAbhann(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
