School: Eaglais
- Location:
- An Eaglais, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Heifearnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0822, Page 097
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- (continued from previous page)1601 O'Neill with several other Irish Chiefs and their army "were expeditiously conveyed across the Shannon at Shannon Harbour, from thence they proceeded to Delvin MacCoughlan, to Fearcall, to the borders of Slieve Bloom, and into IKerrin".
- O'Neill's WellIt is interesting on connection with these visits of O'Neill to the Bliabh Bloom Mts., to find a place in these Mts., a little to the East of Castle Bernard called "O'Neill's well", even to the present day.
- Bounds of Ely O'Carroll"Running through the country towards the S.E. Even to the top of the mountain called Sliabh Bloom where the limits of the aforesaid county of Ely O'Carroll, and upper Ossory in the Queens Co. Join directly over the towns and lands of Garida commonly called "Scullys land".Inquisition at Drumakeeraan 15-12-1621. It thus appears as if a person stands with a foot at each side of the lockspitted boundary on the summit(continues on next page)
