School: Cnoc na Manach, An Mhainistir Bhán, Cionn tSáile (roll number 1391)

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   “Sean De Barra of Dunbogue is said to have met...”

   

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   The Teríach lived in Middle Ballingarry, his castle was on the field in front of Maurice Kiely’s house and the foundations were come across when the field was tilled many years ago, and the tradition is that it was on the high ground overlooking Douglas near Cork that Seán A Barra met and fought the battle in which the Teríach was killed. I never heard how Seán himself died or what became of him, but when I was a little chap there were some stones of his castle still existing and I was shown where he leaped across a chasm on his horse and the footprints of his horse’s hoof where he landed but when I was out there last there was no trace as they were washed away by the encroaching sea.

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   “The present R.C. church at Minane Bridge...”

   

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   The following is also Daniel Corrigan’s.

   The present R.C. church at Minane Bridge must have been erected about 1775 in succession to a church that existed immediately before that on the old road from Laharran Cross to Ballyfeard at Farranbrien about half way between those places, and the place is marked by two white Sun Stones on the northern side of the road on the fence of the field now owned by Bat Dempsey Farranbrien and a few hundred yards north east of it a well in the borheen leading to Johnny Neills and Bat Dempsey’s houses which was always known as a holy well and I well remember

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