Scoil: Birr (Mercy Convent)
- Suíomh:
- Birr or Parsonstown, Co. Offaly
- Múinteoir: Sr. Flannan
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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0821, Leathanach 217
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- XML Scoil: Birr (Mercy Convent)
- XML Leathanach 217
- XML “Place Names - Leap Castle”
- XML “Place Names - The Gap of Glenadine”
- XML “Place Names - Killyon (Cill Liaine)”
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Ar an leathanach seo
- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)Chief of Hui Deci:-
"Hui Deci the goodly country of hills
The extensive white mansioned land,
A fertile country, closely adhered to by them (the Hy Deki))
The hereditary estate of O'Banan".
Aghacon is in Irish "Achadh na gCon", Ager Caenum, that is, "The Field of the Hounds".
- The Gap of Glendine where my grand-mother and great grand-mother were born was the pass in the Slieve Bloom mountains which the northern chiefs used, in their journey from Ulster to Kinsale. The ruins of the house are still to be seen there. The name of my ancestors who lived in the house was Whelan.Nora Madden, aged 16 years, Main St., Birr.
- Killyon (Cill Liadhain). At Killyon, St. Kieran founded a nunnery for his mother, Liadain. Some years ago considerable remains of this nunnery were standing. In 1847 there was opened an underground room, in which was found a curious iron key, and a number of peculiarly made bottles, besides broken drinking glasses. There was also dug up iron keys of antique shape, knives, sport horns, and a cooking hearth. This latter was in the middle of the(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)
