School: Kilmacanogue, Bray
- Location:
- Kilmacanoge, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chuinneáin
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- (continued from previous page)pinnacle "Carrick Na GCeann" ie the rock of the Heads, while others say that that name belongs properly to the little bog which lies at the foot of the mountain at its base, immediately overhanging Glencormack Road, and on which are two small moates a few yards asunder.There is a small "rath" at the eastern base of the Sugar Loaf, on a subdivision of Kilmacanogue townland called Cuill or the Wood. Here Red Hugh O'Donnell rested when on his way to Wexford. It was in the Quill Wood also that Michael Dwyer surrendered to the English, he was captured in the Rockey Valley on his way to Glendalough.The Lady's Island, Broid (Brághaid ie neck) and Lug Roe are names of places behind Kilmacanogue Village.The biggest battle between the Danes and the Tuatha De Dannans is supposed to have been fought on the flat of the Broid (Braghaid)(continues on next page)
