School: Cromadh (B.)

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   one of which has now disappeared, leaving only a slight portion of decayed stump. The other two however are ? and at a height of about six feet from the original main bole or crown, they are completely joined together by a knotty growth which has united as well as enveloped both trunks. Tom Toomey, whose father and grandfather spent all their years working in Carass, in mill or farm or otherwise told me that his people had over 120 years association with the place, and informed me further that this knotty joining of the trunks of the oak used to be pointed out to him as a place on which a bell used to be hung and rung to call the people to mass in the penal days. He also had it that there was a burial ground beside it. At a distance of 200 yards east of this supposed burial site, Toomy said that there once stood a "double house" with high gables which extended above the roof. A stairway led up at both gables outside, to a door which gave access to the "living" house on the first floor, the ground floor being reserved for cattle. (A house of nearly similar type still stands on the farm of Mr. Crowley near Quinlan's forge on the cul-de sac road that branches on the left a half-mile beyond Kilfinny village en route to Rathkeale, and two similar houses occur in the townland of Bherbradda or Kilannin, Kilfinny Parish). a family named Toomey lived in this house at one time and they had attached to it an orchard about which Mr. Toomey related the following story.

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Daithí O Ceanntabhail

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir