School: Redwood (roll number 11912)
- Location:
- Redwood, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máighréad Nic Chormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 182
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- (continued from previous page)The Glebe Field: a small field containing about eighteen Irish acres. The Parish priest is the land-lord. Wm Bollard is the tenant, and also the local blacksmith. A priest was killed near this place during the Cromwellian persecution.
Puck's Lios: in the townland of Redwood and in Mr. Joseph Grogan's land. The family who lived there at one time had nick-name of Puck because they kept a stud farm for goats.
The Lios is very regular and beautifully circular in shape. It is banked all round with clay and whitethorn bushes. There is a hillock in the centre where unbaptized children were buried. There are three other Lioses or forts to be seen from Puck's Lios.
Cosgrove's Lane: an old boreen or road leading to the Glebe or field locally known as the Glaibe(continues on next page)
