School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 192
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- (continued from previous page)iron gate at the east side. There is another entrance a timber door at the north side. There is another timber door at the south side. There is an avenue from the main gate about one hundred years long. It is enclosed in a square shape by a stone wall.
It is used as a burial place for both Catholics and Protestants. The Protestants having their cemetery at the west side and the late Henry Cole Bowen got it enlarged about twelve years ago and this takes up about a quarter of the graveyard.
There is a Protestant church within the and service is still being carried on there. The Protestants claim to have rebuilt this as there is an inscription over the door in Latin and Roman figures as follows:
“Deo om sacracuum,
temple hoc antique,
St. Coleman’s Farrahy,
recondite fail
annoy redemtionis
M D C C X X I
Domus meadows orationis”
The translation of this is
“This church of St. Coleman’s of Farrahy was rebuilt in the year of our redemption 1721.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Farahy, Co. Cork
