School: Inis Mac ón Tír (roll number 12854)
- Location:
- Inis Mhic an Trír, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Muireann Bean Uí Chuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 131
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- (continued from previous page)D. Lynches died in 1703 and was buried in Cong.
- GEORGE MCNAMARRA of Cratloe Co Clare settled in Cong 1730 in a beautiful residence in the Abbey grounds. The will of George McNamara is dated 1760 in the record office. A romantic life which depicts him as an amiable an philanthropist has been written by Patrick Higgins. The exploits of Mac and his horse "Venus" are the wild west type.KELLY and WEBB bracketed by tradition with the "Cratloe Gentleman" reputed bandits if not worse. Webb assassinated many victims in the deep cleft east of Cong."Kelly's Cave" easily descended by steps had an inner Crop-holes lair. A skeleton with an enormous skull was unearthed in it some time ago.
- Book of the Shrea (?) - A collection of literature in possession of the last Lord Abbot (Cong) disappeared about 100 years ago, and it is said a tailor used it as waste paper from which to cut patterns.
