School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cappamore
- Location:
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Benin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0521, Page 147
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- (continued from previous page)of whom he made a great slaughter. He demolished the castle and burnt the town from the inner citadel to the outer walls. About the same date, a wooden tower or bretasche, is mentioned as being there. In 1827 there were remains of four castles and a fortified gate. In Caherconlish there is traditionally said to have been a 'college' the site of which is still known as the 'college field' in which dwelt the Friars who served the church.
As Caherconlish was a rectory impropriate in Abbey Owney, it seems probable that the church here was a collegiate one served either by some of the monks, who were in Priests Orders, or else by a body of secular clerks.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Dhonnchadha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clogher, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Séamus Ó Caoinleán
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocknacarriga, Co. Limerick
