School: Béal Dearg (roll number 11582)
- Location:
- Béal Deirg Mór, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Conghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0139, Page 206
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- (continued from previous page)running from the foot of the hills around a small mountain lake (Loc na mBreach Caoch) to the foot of the hills on the other side.
The fence was built on a natural elevation and must have been up to fifteen or twenty feet high originally. There are no traces of habitations with the semi-circle though it is possible there may be some small traces beneath the bog. The lake is shallow, with solid gravel bottom and may originally have been the site of any dwellings. The total length of the fence would be nearly half a mile.
Near Rathavesteen is a leachta or clumps of stones called Leacht Ádhamh. It marks the place where a man died of wounds received in the battle of Aughrim.
Nearer to Belderrig along the same road is the remains of a hermit’s hut, but who the hermit was I have not been able to find out. A withered holly bush stands beside the scattered stones of his ‘house’.
St. Derible or Gerible lived beside the Blessed Well in Belderrigmore. (The(continues on next page)
