School: Caimthír (Camphire), Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 15129)
- Location:
- Camphire, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Nóra Bean Uí Chradóig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0636, Page 394
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- (continued from previous page)called because priests used to say Mass there long ago. In the townland of Camphire in the parish of Lismore.
Páirc-dóighthe
'The Burnt Field.
It is so called because a crop which was grown there was burnt. It is still named Páirc Dóighthe
The Gander's Head Tree
It is so called because a ghost appeared there in the form of a gander.
The Reiligín
A Graveyard. It is so-named because in the Penal times people were buried there. In the townland of Okyle in the parish of Cappoquin.The Furze Hill
It is so called because it is a hill of furze.
Boithrín-Fork
It is so called because it represents a fork. In 1916 Thomas Mackey was shot there by British Forces for suspicious behaviour. There is a monument erected at that boithrín in memory of him. In the townland of Morehill in the parish of Tallow.
Camphire Hills are historical as it is said St. Patrick's cow came after her calf through these hills going to Kilwatermoy as her calf was stolen by a man from that place.
- Informant
- Tomás Ó hAnagáin
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Camphire, Co. Waterford
