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School: Cromadh (B.)

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Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 401

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

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    on this particular sheet 3.514 and the continuation of the inch is marked 2.618 and again 2.757 extending to the Stepping Stones shown. "Clashnamarve garden" is north of the inch and is variously pointed out by different brothers - there are four, all young men - as both fields marked 5.980 and 6.537 east of the fort and of the other.
    Powlnecró (p.p. 49, 54, 78) begins just inside the eastern boundary of inch 2.618 and extends into inch 2.757 to approximately 1 inch on the sheet. The 25" inch sheet 1 of No XXXI does not show the sloping or broken nature of Clashnamarve inches. "Clashnamarve gardens" were subsoiled by Billy O Rourke some 50 years ago and they then contained a number of large boulders. Mr. David Reidy, the eldest brother of the family on whose lands this place name arises, says he remembers his mother to say that her, grand-uncle-named Mulcahy - often told her that the slope of "Clashnamarve inch" rand streams of blood. South-east of Pollnecró in the same sheet 1.XXXI furze-covered field (area 1.346) is the mound referred to on page 50 as a burial mound for famine victims I cannot give my authority for the statement that this was a burial ground, but I heard it a good many years ago. This story of the bloody inch - slope leaves no doubt about the origin and meaning of Powelnecró. (The figures designating the fields above are of course, the areas in statute acres as specified in the 25" ordinance sheet)
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    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Location
    Croom, Co. Limerick
    Collector
    Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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    Male
    Occupation
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