School: Convent of Mercy, An Pasáiste, Corcaigh
- Location:
- Passage West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0390, Page 168
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- (continued from previous page)Situated on the north west of the Great Island on the banks of the river Lee, facing Passage West and Glenbrook, is the pretty little village of Carrigaloe. It is at the base of a hill from which it takes the name "Carrigaloe" which means the rock of the tumult.
Less than a century ago this small village was a seaport town from which ships used to sail to America and the other continents. The habour pilots lived close to the village and to the present day the remains of the homes, gardens and boundary walls can be seen on the hillside. The opening of the Great Southern Railway did away with all these comfortable little homes and the people who occupied them at the time moved to Passage West and to Cobh.
Long ago when the Nemedians first came to Ireland they landed at Carrigaloe. They were afterwards wiped out with a plague and the few that remained died in a field now known as the Lios field. Up to the present(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Michael O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Carrigaloe, Co. Cork
