School: Com Liath (Scoil Brighde) (roll number 8924)
- Location:
- Coomleagh West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Muircheartach Ó Cróinín
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- At the boundary between the parishes of Drimoleague and Bantry is a place called "An Caba". I think it means a bend in the mountain range and there is such a bend.From the Caba westwards the range is called Mullac Méise. In my opinion this mountain was so named because mass may have been celebrated there in the penal days. There is too in the range a shelf of rock just about the height to serve as an altar.In this range too there is a hollow known as poll a' Graráin but nobody in this district knows the reason for the name.At the boundary between the two parishes is a well, known as "Tobar Muir" (Moore's well) Its water is supposed to be the purest in west Cork. A short distance into the Drimoleague parish is "bearna fodla"How bearna fodla got its name. It is said that when the O'Donovan clan were building their castle at Castledonovan, they raided O'Sullivan's territory round Glengariff and drove off some cattle. They were overtaken by the O'Sullivans at bearna fodla and in the battle which ensued the O'Donovans were badly beaten. They spared the life of the O'Donovan chieftain on his promising never again to raiding the O'Sullivan's(continues on next page)
