School: Dún Átha, Carraig an Chabhaltaigh

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1. Fothracha agus Seantithe na hÁite Seo (continued)

   

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   CASTLE:-

   In Carrigaholt (3 miles from here) since Elizabethan times

   
   WOODS:-

   Small wood surrounding above castle. Great scarcity of trees of all kinds elsewhere

   
   LAND:-

   On the whole, good but 2 large bogs where turf is cut. Lisheen Bog and Doonaha Bog

   
   USUAL CROPS:-

   Hay, oats, Potatoes with very little wheat or barley

   
   DAIRYING:-

   Is extensive and milk supplies are sold to the auxiliary creamery in Doonaha. FOWL rearing negligible and PIG population generally on the decline

   
   FORTS:-

   are to be seen in almost every field

   
   BATTERY

   in Doonaha originally built to resist the French and Fenians?

   
   DOONAHA CHURCH

   according to Bishop Fogarty, is the oldest in the Diocese having been built in 1803.

   In the porch is an old font which was dug up on the site when they were building the church.

   Tradition that father of Eugene O'Curry worked on its erection

   
   BATT SCANLAN

   says there was another church in a field a the back of Mangan's forge before 1803. This was a thatched church and two men fought in it, one being killed so the church was closed

   
   MOVEEN

   There was a church in a field at the back of Danl Gorman's - Moveen - field is still called Gort a' Phobail. Though a very old woman there Biddy Leairi says she never heard of a church there

   
   Mrs Naughton,
   Kilkee

   

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Naughton

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilkee, Co. Clare