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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Foher

Item

Title

Foher

Description

Set of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Foher, [Fothair]. Included are descriptions of St. Joseph's Wall, Aill an Chapaill, Little Killery Adventure Centre, Little Killary (sometimes known as the Salrock Harbour), the Mission School, the Pass of Salrock, Salrock Church (a Protestant Church built c. 1840 by Alex Thomson. There are three plaques in the church dedicated to Captain Colin Browne Barber, Major Robert Heberden Barber, and Alex Thomson). Salrock Graveyard, and an adjacent Protestant Graveyard. A list of graves is provided in the index cards. Festy Mortimer of Rosroe is credited with providing some of the local information.
Foher.

Format

11pp

Identifier

nuigalway:2581
ead-unitid: p120_1_3_29

Relation

Tim Robinson
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Subject

describing--Fothair--descriptions--Chapaill--Adventure--sometimes--Harbour--Protestant--dedicated--Thomson--Graveyard--Protestant--Graveyard--providing--information--Ballinakill Civil Parish Ballynakill or Letterfrack Roman Catholic Parish