CLONDROHID

In 1868, the parish of Clondrohid contained the following places:

"CLONDROHID, a parish in the barony of West Muskerry, in the county of Cork, province of Munster, Ireland, 4 miles to the N.W. of Macroom, its post town. The surface is extremely hilly and boggy, the chief summits being Muskerrybeg, Muskerrymore, and Croomcarrig. The parish contains several quarries of slate and freestone. The rivers Sullane and Foherish, and the road from Cork to Killarney, pass through the parish. The soil is poor and strewn with fragments of rock, involving great labour in their removal before the land can be ploughed. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, value £780, in the patronage of the bishop. The church was built about a century ago and is in good repair. Here are two Roman Catholic chapels and Sunday and day schools. The large stones used upon the farms for fences are obtained from the surrounding rocks in rather a novel manner. The surface having been heated by keeping up peat fires upon it, is suddenly cooled, when it immediately splits into sections, and easily yields to the hands of the workman. Some Danish and Druidical remains exist within 3 or 4 miles of Macroom and Carrig-a-Phouca, or M'Carty's Castle. Hanover Hall is the principal residence."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2018