School: An Clochar, Dún ar Aill (roll number 4268)

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1. My Home District (continued)

   

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   The townland of Ballinguiroe means the townland of the "Red Fox" because there are always a great number of foxes there.

   There were twice as many houses long ago than there are now but most of them are gone to ruin. A great number of people emigrated to America in former times because it was easy to go that time. There were no examinations at Consols and it was very cheap. There is not any song about the townland of Ballinguiroe but there is about the parish. The name of it is. "Famous Kildorrery Town"

   

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2. My Home District

   

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   There are the ruins of an old Catholic Church in Rossagh. It is situated in Gallaghers farm. The ruins of the four walls are about eight feet high. In the two long walls the spaces can be seen where the windows were.

   The ruins are covered with ivy, and (int) white thorn bushes grow in the interior. The name of it is Temple Haggard.

   There was a graveyard in front of the old Church and they say that some of the Kings of Munster were buried there.

   The priest's house was beside it. When Gallahers were living in the house it is said that they took the headstones

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Rossagh East, Co. Cork

   Collector

   Hannah Roche

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Rossagh East, Co. Cork