Item 49 - Omey Island

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UGA P120/1/6/49

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Omey Island

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43pp

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Set of index cards giving a brief description of the townland of Omey Island, [Iomaí]. Included are a note on the island and its ecclesiastical history which grew from St. Feichín erecting an Abbey there. Also included are descriptions of Guairín an tSionnaigh, Trá Rabhach, Dúirlic, Gabhair, Cora Bhuí, Fó Mhór, Boilg Buí, Tóin Rua, Gooreen, Corcran ( a graveyard), Trá na nÉan, Teampaill Feichín, Tobar Feichín (includes a small illustration of a plain wooden cross above a recess), Oileán na Cíocra, Carraig Gorham, Fó Tobar, Poll Mór, Loch Feichín, Teampall Feichín, Dobhar na Raithní, Béal an Oileáin, Dobhar Mháirtín, Cloon, Trá Chóil, Omey House (now in ruins, once the home of the Bodkin family), Cúltrá, Cartoorbeg, Cnocán na mBan (local story about the ill fate of one of Cromwell's men who was interred there), shell middens, the local graveyard (which includes a Celtic Cross for those who drowned in the Cleggan Bay disaster. The inscriptions of the names of the 16 local men who lost their lives in the tragedy are included here). Also included are descriptions of Loch na Marcán, a note on the possible site of the Protestant schoolhouse (includes an anecdote about the Catholic curate being struck over the head with a soup ladle in the 19th century). Sturrakeen, and within it Kierney's House, the Protestant Church, Omey Strand, and Lochán na Long are also described. Michael Cahill and Jo McDonagh are credited as being sources of some of the local information.

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      07/10/2014
      27/05/2015

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