School: Cill Gharbh, Clanna Caoilte (roll number 10499)
- Location:
- Kilgarriff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Adelaide Mac Carthy
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0312, Page 041
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cill Gharbh, Clanna Caoilte
- XML Page 041
- XML “Templebryan”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The Church of Brian (Bryan). It contains some of the most interesting antiquarian remains in Co. Cork. Townsend, writing in 1815 (121 years ago,) says the place shows a sudden transition from pagan to Christian worship on the same site.
The ruins of the church are still to be seen; its dimensions were small and the remains show it to be very ancient.
On the north side of the ruined church and within a few paces stands a curious pillar stone, a single stone 14 feet high, nearly five feet of which is underground.
On one side of the pillar stone is a rude form of a cross. Near the enclosing fence is a cave running from east to west, its sides are supported by walls covered with coarse slates or flags which come so near the surface as to be disturbed by the plough. The holy water font of the little church is now in the midst of the debris. The story of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- William Kingston
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Templebryan North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr David Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Templebryan North, Co. Cork
