School: Baile Caisleáin an Róistigh (B.) (roll number 14107)
- Location:
- Castletownroche, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Luineacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0371, Page 181
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- (continued from previous page)to see 30 or 40 people there Dead Man's Cross is so called because a passenger by coach died there about 100 years ago.
Labbavacum as spelled in old documents may mean river bed of the parsnips or it possibly might be a man's name and be Macan's grave.
There is a legend that a giant jumped from Skeh-haurdh Garron[?] Hill and arrived here with so much force that the rock sank beneath him at a place called Poulnavachan which is a deep hole on the side of Carker Glen, Doneraile.
After going down through this hole some 20 ft you come to a lake in the rock formed by the Ogeen (little river) in an underground course.
