School: Berrings (Measctha) (roll number 4186)
- Location:
- Berrings, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Drisceoil
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“Many years ago there lived at Foxe's Bridge, Courtbrack, Co. Cork, a labouring man with his wife and two children who were very young.”
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“In the townland of Ballyshonin, Berrings, and adjoining the road from Cork to Kanturk via Barrachaurin, is a rock (amongst many rocks) known as Carrig an Aifrinn.”
In the town land of Ballyshonin, Berrings, and adjoining the road from Cork to Kanturk via Barrachaurin, is a rock, (amongst many rocks) known as Carrig an Aifrinn. It is said that Mass was celebrated here in the Penal Times.
On the roadside quite near is a projection of rock, resembling a human head, and believed locally to be the image of a priest's head, perhaps from the fact that Mass was said at the rock near-by in the Penal Times, and also from the fact that on close examination, there is something in what represents the neck that could remind one of the Roman Collar as worn by priests.