School: Cromadh (B.)

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

   

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   - was working with his father, the late Mr. John Reidy, he told them that the "people" were always talking of a battle that was fought in the inch, beside the Camog river and between the latter and the field in question. There is no indication of a Clair in the field but the peculiar configuration of the top of the inch slope suggests at once the appearance of having once been piled into mounds. Further, Mr Patrick Reidy informed me that Dan Riordan deceased, whose farm on his death was acquired by the Reidys, once set out to level those mounds but had not gone far in the work when he discovered a lot of human bones. He promptly redisposed the ground as it had been and so it remains to this day. The mounds and alleged battle site as well as Clais-na-Marbh itself are to the north and extending westward of the "poll" referred to (on pages 49 and 54 and 78) as Powlnecró. The position of what the Reidy Bos. call the "Clashnamarve Inch" and "Clashnamarve garden" is to be located on No 1 sheet (2.5" ordinance map) of the No. 31 sheet 6" map of Co. Limerick, at a point 4" from the right hand side and 8" from the top. (both these measurements are taken by mistake with the sheet upside down.) The first section of the inch north of the Camóg is marked (low meadow)

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   History Edit

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Location

   Croom, Co. Limerick

   Collector

   Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir