School: Baile an Chaisleáin
- Location:
- Castletownshend, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Donnabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0298, Page 234
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- (continued from previous page)by the British sailors after the battle of Trafalgar. During the Civil war it was knocked and afterwards rebuilt. The men who built it say that they found a penny of the year 1814 and they put with it a penny of the year 1914.
The re-construction took place in 1914 under the direction of Colonel Somerville, Drishane House who asked for volunteers to reconstruct the monument thrown down.* It was not during the Civil war but during the Anglo-Irish war that the original arch was thrown down.
- An rud a bheathuigheann duine sé a mharbhuigheann duine eile.
Cloch reatha gan cúnlach.
An rud is anamh is ionghantach mar srathar ar mhuc.
Ní bhíonn Satharn riamh gan grían.
Agus ní bhionn margadh riamh gan bhean.
Buail ar do ghualainn é agus abair nach ualach é.
Cnuasuigheann triopall beart.
An té a bhí ag roinnt na h-Éireann(continues on next page) - Collector
- Cáit Ní Dhonnobháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castletownshend, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Bean Uí Donnchadha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castletownshend, Co. Cork
