School: Léim Lárach, Carraig Thuathail (roll number 4118)
- Location:
- Léim Lára, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán Ó Nia (Meville?)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0387, Page 116
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- Account of the Barry Family of Leamlara.
The present representative is Mr. Standish Barry one time a J.P. is a catholic.
In former times lived in a thatched house in Clash Leamlara with mud walls: This same house is owned presently by John Barry Clash - Farmer - whose father bought same from the Barrys. The mud walls were knocked and rebuilt with stone and slated. As accounts will show it was from here the Mare raced with its owner from the Soldiers and gave the Famous JUMP. Known as the "[?] Lárach".
- Leamlara, the seat of that great Barry family, since the fourteenth Century. It has never been known that any person who went to Lemlara asking a request was refused old people tell their children that the Barrys of Lemlara had the power of freeing three people from the gallows every year. And that when Miss Barry(continues on next page)
- Collector
- J.C. Neville
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Seamús Mac An Bhaird
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile an Churraigh, Co. Chorcaí
