Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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1. Parish Boundaries - How Marked (continued)

   

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   not the middle of the stream, but the middle of the ditch and a tree on this ditch without my neighbours permission can be without mine [The murder trial (Hogan & Hanley) who ? in Dublin on Sat 16/?/37 originated in a dispute about the tree who grew on the boundary between their farms.] The embankment to the east shows the former width of the stream, or the eastward limit of its meandering OR marks the brink of the monks' mill-dam. It is quite evident from topographical features extant that this was formerly site of ford. The greatest width of the stream, OR of the dam or of the ford or of the oscillation in the meandering stream was 70-80 yards.
   Following this stream down 1/2 mile from Toem we find that it marks a boundary of neither field, farm, nor townland is at present a few yards north of the boundary between Baronies Killnamanagh & Clanwilliam.

   The Sappers marked Butlers fort Knockanstanella (? Book 1) older inhabitants hold that ? ? fort marked is the real Knockaun-na-staneela, but possibly they base their claim on ? that A stands in townland of Knockane (? Cnocán). The Sappers classed "cloc a' puill" (Co. Carlow) as an ?

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Location

   Tuaim, Co. Thiobraid Árann