School: Rinn Garóige, An Scibirín (roll number 16255)

Location:
Ringarogy Island, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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    In the ocean about a quarter of a mile south from the townland of [?] in Baltimore Co Cork, there is a small island named "The Kedge". There are about four acres of land in it. There is a bed cut into a rock about one hundred feet over the sea and in that, people used hide from the English soldiers in the Penal Days. Under the island there is a tunnel where people used hide in boats also.
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    3. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Micheál Ó Coileáin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    11
    Informant
    Padraig Ó Coileáin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
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    In Jack Salter's field in Reengaroge down by the strand there are the remains of four old houses about two hundred years old. A man named Owen lived there and the strand is called Trág Eoghain.
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    There is a small island out from [?] Rinngaróge, called the [?]
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