School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)

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   which is called "carragín"
   "Bothar glas" is near Lislee, it leads to the house of a Collins family, one of whom is referred to in a poem.
   With her pearl teeth all in a row.
   And her skin as white as the falling snow. And her hair in ringlets tipping the grass
   She was lovely Ellie of Bóthar glas"

   Long ago non-baptized babies used to be buried at cross-roads. There is a cross-road near Kilbrittain called "crois na leanbh" on that account.
   There is a bóithrín near my father's house in Ballinascarthy it is called "carrig bóithrín". There is another near Ballinscarthy also, it is called "bóithrín na coille" as it runs through a wood.
   "Bóithrín tobair" is a road which leads to Lady's Well. "Bóthar ráis" [so called because horse-races were run on it] leads to Bóithrín tobair.
   There is a cross road near Lislevane which was famous in a poem by Thomas Davis, nephew of the famous Thomas Davis who wrote "the lament of Owen Roe ONeill"
   "The little cross where the four roads meet There's no spot on earth I'm fonder"

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. public infrastructure
            1. roads (~2,778)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Cáitlín Ní Míodache

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Garrane, Co. Cork