School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lic Snámha (roll number 11849)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Gabriel
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0410, Page 278
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- (continued from previous page)he cut the garrison off from the waters and forced a capitulation. Not much now remain of this once great Castle, where according to tradition, culture and refinement found a home, and where there were pleasant water parties on the river and a variety of entertainments. So Lady Kerry wrote that there were only two places in the world worth living in - "London and Lixnaw.
In no part of Kerry is the tragedy of time so forcibly brought to mind as in viewing the remains of former da[?] in Lixnaw. The grassgrown foundations speak eloquently of what had been, and the noisy jackdaws round the old weather beaten tomb point the moral(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Dore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynageragh, Co. Kerry
