School: Béal Átha hUbhla (C.) (roll number 3998)
- Location:
- Baile Átha hÚlla, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chaoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0372, Page 383
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - This townland is on the Blackwater Bank Six houses and about twenty inhabitants are in it.
- Cregg is about three miles from Ballyhooly between the latter place and Fermoy.
There is a Castle built on a high rock and from that rock the townland gets its name.
There are ruins of a monastery in a field but nobody knows when it was built or where the monks went.
There is only a piece of the walls now left.
Near Cregg is Templenoe.
There was a Church there and also a small village.
There is no sign of the Church and nobody knows where it was.
There was a public house there which was closed because a soldier was killed there about 80 years agoNear Templenoe is Ballynoe.
There were many farmers living there but they all left in the Famine years.
Long ago a bull was heard bellowing by people passing through in the middle of the night although nobody in the townland posessed a bill(continues on next page)
