School: An Clochar, Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 14952)
- Location:
- Oileán Ciarraí, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: An tSr. Caoimhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0447, Page 024
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- To the east of Cordal lies a patch of ground, on the slope of a hill called "Foyle Philip." In this patch the can be seen to the present day the ruins of an old house which was occupied in olden times by a man named Philip Fitzgerald or still known as Philip Céad Bó. In those days people got very little religious education. This man employed three or four men whose work it was to go about stealing cattle from other counties as well as his own. Philip's order was not to take any cattle from a poor man.
It happened however that stations were held at(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Griffin
- Gender
- Female
