School: Clochar na Trócaire, Maghcromtha

Location:
Macroom, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0341, Page 561

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  1. As a record of County Wexford early surnames lately appeared in the “Examiner” it may prove of no less interest to present a similar record of those of the county and city of Cork, many of them, as in the case of the county Wexford being of Anglo-Norman origin. These latter names date principally from the 12th century, when under the newly established English regime, John Dispasser was appointed in 1199 the first provost of Cork City and in 1272 Richard Marren as first Mayor. In 1372 appeared the names of Cork’s first sherriffs, at that time styled Bailiffs. These were Gordon le Walys (now Wallis or Welsh) and Richard Roteswayn. In 1319 John Fitzsimon figures as high sheriff of the Cork county, about which time it became a separate entity from the rest of Munster, most of the Irish counties having been created in the reign of King John.
    In the pre-English days inhabitants of Cork had, as so many of them now have, Milesian
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    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Bríghid Ní Céitinn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tooms, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mícheál Ó Bhuachalla
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tooms, Co. Cork