School: Gleann an Phréacháin (Glenville) (roll number 450)
- Location:
- Glenville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: D. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0382, Page 153
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- (continued from previous page)streams. Most likely on account of there stepping stones as a means of crossing the streams surrounding it was called the "land of the stones".Bailebreac.
The land of different colours. In looking at a ploughed field in this townland from a distance, two different sometimes three different colours may be seen. The grey of marl The dark purple soil, and sometimes black. Besides the soil is of different colours in various parts of it. In the south-red; in the west marl: to the east dark.Árd-na-Gaoithe.
The height of the wind. In it are the ruins of an old protestant church. There is also a graveyard, and the remains of an avenue leading to the protestant rectors residence. At the highest point in this town land there is a cross called -
Crois-na-[?]Conabaleag.
It was reputed as being haunted by the spirit of a woman, who killed two illegitimate children both being baptised. She is then reputed as having slain an unbaptised child and this was the cause of her being condemned to this high bleak place.(continues on next page)
