School: Cromadh (B.)

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   Ruins
   (d) Dysert Aongus.

   Mr. O'Connell's mother still alive at 86 years, remembers people talking about the other storey that was on the tower, and also about the conical cap that was on it. Both that and the upper storey - which had four windows, one looking to each of the four points of the compass - were then in a ruinous condition, and though she thinks there was then no stairway or ladder in the tower, she heard how people used to climb - within the tower by some means - to the ruined top.

   The latter with the four-lighted top storey - if they did exist, are now demolished. I believe they did, because Mr. O'Connell further told me that he "buried" huge stones in the black earth near the tower base, as being the most convenient way of getting the heaviest of them out of sight. Christy himself meditated erecting a vault near the tower, and had an iron - door made with carved limestone lintels, and inscribed - flat - arch stone to set in the vault, but he is not buried there. "The dead objected", and his iron door and carved lintels give entrance to a roofless barn.

   The ladders and floors within the tower

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Location

   Díseart Aengusa, Co. Luimnigh

   Collector

   Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Address

   Cromadh, Co. Luimnigh

   Informant

   Mr Edward O Connell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   An Carraigín, Co. Luimnigh

   Informant

   Mr James Mc Garry

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Stockbroker

   Address

   Luimneach, Co. Luimnigh

   Informant

   Mrs O Connell

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   86

   Informant

   Tim Tierney

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   73

   Address

   Cromadh, Co. Luimnigh