School: Clochar na Trócaire, Clanna Caoilte (roll number 7651)

Location:: Clonakilty, Co. Cork
Teacher:: An tSr. Treasa

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could see nothing. Then he heard someone shouting to the horses and they stopped. Then he heard the noise of shoveling as if someone were filling in a grave. After that the noise of horses, carts and whips was heard again by the man.

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“There is a ruined castle in Ballinlougher a short distance from the banks of the Argideen at Castle View near Clonakilty.”

There is a ruined castle in Ballinarougher a short distance from the banks of the Arrgadeen at Castle View near Clonakilty. This castle in former times belonged to the McCarthy "Crimeens". It was afterwards handed over to a man named Allen who probably, was a Cromwellian soldier. Folklore tells us that the last of the Allen family to live there were two

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