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School: Cromadh (B.)

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Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 518

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    named Moynihan from Crecord. (It was built in 1855) - Pat Allen. (Comgendum: It was the Moynihans who built it - masons)
    There was a coach-stop at the back of O'Donnell's "orchard" (Mrs. Catherine O'Donnell Caherduff Manister). There is a big pile of stones there yet. The coach road came in by Carmody's (now Donovan's Caherduff) up by the orchard, down by Lockcasey and on by Ballycahane to Limerick through Feeroo. (Pat. Allen.)
    "They say there was a castle there one time" Michael O Donnell Caherduff, referring to the big "pile of stones" at the "coach stop")
    Skule (or Shkule) is a district in the parish of Fedamore and near "Sweet Ballinagarde", one time a very beautiful place, Croker's residence. The following will speak for itself:-
    Where Shkule is now, or rather where it was, for if a Skule man got up (from his grave) he wouldn't know it now, was a commonage one time. The Shkule people came into that commonage in the dark of the night and took possession of it and held it. When the people (natives) got up in the morning there were the strangers, men women and children settled down in the commanage. They had the queerest little houses you ever saw, some of them were up on the top of the turf bank, while more of them were cut in underneath the bank to make dug-outs there. Twas one of
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Daithí Ó Ceanntabhail
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir
    Informant
    Dick Butler
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Edward O Connell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    An Carraigín, Co. Luimnigh
    Informant
    Joe Costelloe
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Miss Finnerty
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    National múinteoir
    Address
    Cromadh, Co. Luimnigh
    Informant
    Miss Guare
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Hederman
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Pat Allen
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    William O Connell
    Gender
    Male