Scoil: Moycarkey, Thurles

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Local Place Names (ar lean)

   “There is a well on Mr Thomas Langley's land, in the townland of Coolkennedy, called "Father Grace's".”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   the meeting is at present at Miss Maher's house at Turtulla cross-roads.

   
   One of Phil Maher's fields at Turtulla is called Moon-na-Hock. This field is entered by a bye-road which runs off the main road from Horse and Jockey to Thurles about a mile and a half from Thurles. In the middle of this field there is a spring well called Piper's well. It is enclosed by bushes. This well is so called because two fiddlers lived near it in olden times. The man's name was Piper and the woman's name was Noggan. There are several circles of bushes and mounds of earth on the west side of this field which are perhaps the sites of former houses.

   Turtulla hill which is situated about one a half miles from Thurles on the main road from Horse and Jockey to Thurles is called the "Grat" or the "Grot".

   
   There is a holy well in Dr. Barry's field in Turtulla where pilgrimages were held every year in olden times, three days before the 5th August and three days

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
         1. aimsir na bpéindlíthe (~4,335)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Dominic Maher

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

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