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Máirtín Ó Direáin - Fathach File / Reluctant Modernist

Cnocnaraw

Item

Title

Cnocnaraw

Description

Set of index cards describing some of the local features of the townland of Cnocnaraw [Cnoc na Rátha]. Descriptions are given of Crocnaraw, formerly known as Rockfield House, which was an orphanage run by Protestant clergymen known as The Forty Boys. Two white quartz boulders known as the Standing Stones, an enclosure, and Maam Green are also described. Mike Gibbons is credited as being a source of some of the information.
Cnocnaraw.

Format

6pp

Identifier

nuigalway:2566
ead-unitid: p120_1_3_14

Relation

Tim Robinson
full:001:https://digital.library.nuigalway.ie/islandora/object/nuigalway:2566
thumb:001:https://digital.library.nuigalway.ie/islandora/object/nuigalway:2566/datastream/TN/view

Subject

describing--Cnocnaraw--Descriptions--Crocnaraw--Rockfield--orphanage--Protestant--clergymen--enclosure--described--information--Ballinakill Civil Parish Ballynakill or Letterfrack Roman Catholic Parish