School: Tervoe (C.) (roll number 5932)

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1. Local Roads

   

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   The following are the names of roads in this district:-
   The Line (or Dock Road). From Limerick to Foynes.
   The Little Line. From the Brick Lodge to Corcamore Cross.
   The Saw-pit hill f. Corcamore Cross to Kilkeedy.
   The Pound road f. Ballybrown Church to Clarina.
   The Chapel Road f. Kilkeedy to Chapel Cross.
   The Wood Road from Brick lodge through Elm Park to Breska.
   The Lodge Road from Clarina Cross to Old Clarina Cross.
   The Old Road from Old Clarina to Mungret.
   The Bog Road from Mungret to Raheen.
   The Hill Road leads over Newtown hill.
   The Line Road from Tervoe to Cregaune Cross.
   The Wash Road from Cregaune Cross to Shannon.
   Cooperhill road from Tervoe Village to Cooperhill.
   Carrig Road from Pound road past Carrigogunnell
   The Ballymacastle Road from Tervoe Village to Conigar.
   Tervoe Road from Ballybrown Church to Tervoe village.
   The Line Rd. (Limerick to Foynes) was made about 70 years ago. "The Roads were made long ago before the time of the famine. They were made to give poor men that were starving with the hunger a few shillings to earn. There is a lot of traffic on these roads at present except on Newtown Hill road because it is too high and rugged. There are many piseogs about crossroads. If you stand at a cross roads after twelve o'clock you would see fairies and you could not pass it anymore by night because you would be stopped by the 'headless coach'.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. public infrastructure
            1. roads (~2,778)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teresa Roberts

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Newtown, Co. Limerick