School: Doire Clathach (Derryclough), Drom Dhá Liag (roll number 11931)
- Location:
- Doire Clochach Íochtarach, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Éamonn Mac Firbisigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0300, Page 157
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- Kilbarry, a town land of beautiful evergreen groves and rich emerald pastures in the Parish of Dun-manway possesses an ancient cemetery shaded with ash, sycamore, holly and spruce. In the cemetery may be seen at present the ivied ruins of a church erected by Saint Finbarr patron-of Cork diocese, from whom the townland has derived its name.
In a field adjoining the (river) cemetery is a sacred well at which many miracles are wrought on afflicted persons brought thither. A tributary of the Bandon flows peacefully past between banks well coated with alders.
One (Clar) calm night during the “Troubled Times in Ireland(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eamonn Mac Firbisig
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drom Dhá Liag, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Timothy Mc Carthy Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doire Graí Thoir, Co. Chorcaí
