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School: Dunmanus, Toormore

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Dunmanus East, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Helena Lucey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 175

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  2. Story of Dunmanus - The Cripple's Leap

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    Away down in the south coast of Ireland, lies that sheltery bay of Dunmanus, which presents in general the appearance of a wide spread lake girded by a zone of mountains of the boldest outline, it is up to twenty miles in length, and from three to four miles in breadth, and in some places fully forty fathoms deep. At the south side near the entrance the mountain barriers which confine it seem to start up abruptly from the water's edge, and its northern shores are equally stern and precipitous.
    There are two Islands of small dimension in this large expanse of water, the first which stands farthest out to seaward lies about the centre of the bay and the second lies closer
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John Mc Carthy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dunmanus East, Co. Cork