School: Castlecomer (B.) (roll number 1118)
- Location:
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 269
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- (continued from previous page)and '98 men. The battle was known as the Battle of Boherkyle.
- The post office call the place Ballinakill but the old people call it Bearnacoille. Further there is a place named Bearna near the mentioned place and one time a wood stretched from 'Comer to Ballinakill, and it was said that a squirrell could travel from Comer to it without touching the ground. The name is taken from a gap in the wood called an BearnaMooneenroe:- The little red bog.
Cloneen:- The little Meadow
Gurteen:- The little ploughed field. - Collector
- John Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- John Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Ballyragget, Co. Kilkenny
