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School: Na Cnocáin (roll number 13150)

Location:
Knockanes, Co. Kerry
Teachers:
Bean Uí Spealáin Máiréad Ní Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0456, Page 339

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    The O'Learys of Rac na Croiche and Cnoc an Imiris and Cnoc an Eiribaill are all the same family. They originally came from County Cork. Denis O'Leary of Knockanes used to say that they came this way from Carraigacurra teh time of Cromwell.
    It was from this spot where the school now stands that the cannon ball was fired in 1649 by Cromwell when Itilaha (?) Castle fell.
    The O'Donoghues lived in a house built at the back of the Castle until about 1695 or so. Some of them went to Limerick and fought with Sarsfield.
    The O'Learys fought on the side of the Irish Catholics from 1641 to 1649 or 1652 and they say that over 60 of our family forfeited their lands and then when the Act of Settlement came - the act that Geoffrey O'Donoghue wrote about
    "Is barra ar an gcleas an react do theacht tar tuinn" -
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    History Edit
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Informant
    Margaret M. O' Leary Spillane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockanes, Co. Kerry