School: Pádraig Naofa, Droichead Banndan
- Location:
- Droichead na Bandan, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Faoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0314, Page 104
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- (continued from previous page)residence of the O'Mahony's was at Rathleann, on the Bandon river, where they subsequently erected a castle on the site of the old rath, called Castle Mahon, now Castle Bernard, the seat of the Earls of Bandon. St Finn Barre, patron saint of Cork was born at Rathleann. His father, Amergin, was chief smith to Tygernach, the then prince of the O'Mahonys. The town of Bandon (or Bandon Bridge), in the barony, ows its establishment chiefly to the first Earl of Cork; and Lewis his second son created 1628 Baron of Bandon Bridge and Viscount Kinalmeaky, was its first governor. The town was incorporated in 1613, and for a long period remained an almost exclusively Protestant settlement.
- Bardic legends record that Partholanus arrived in Ireland ''three hundred years after the Flood;'' He found it wild and uninhabited, and containing but nine important rivers and three lakes. Of the rivers two were the Lagi or Lee, and the Banna or Bandain, whose waters are described as flowing(continues on next page)
