School: Birr (Mercy Convent)
- Location:
- Biorra, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Sr. Flannan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 217
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- (continued from previous page)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.
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