School: Baile Caisleáin an Róistigh (B.) (roll number 14107)
- Location:
- Castletownroche, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Luineacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0371, Page 122
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- (continued from previous page)reign of Henry VIII, when it was ransacked, demolished and the Monks forced to flee. They have never returned and it now lies a decayed structure.There are three towers in the district one in Glenanore, one in Rockvale, and another at Wallstown. The latter was built by a farmer of the neighborhood named Mr John Roche about sixty years ago.
His nephew still lives in Castletownroche, and has a photograph of the old man.
I when a child knew a brother to John Roche referred to above.
This brother kept a flint, steel and rag in a box in his pocket and always lit his pipe by setting fire to the rag (soaked in saltpetre)
He did not believe in matches. He regarded them as unnecessary expense.
- Collector
- P. Ó Luineacháin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Príobhoide
