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From: "D. Hettrick" <>
Subject: Re: Lower Bann Valley -- Pt I
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:56:40 -0800

Hey,

I bet this is the Rody MacCorly of the song -
"...and young Rody MacCorly goes to die
on the bridge of Toome today."

Diane in Seattle


linda Merle wrote:
>
> Hi, when I was in Ulster I bought a book at Queens Bookstore entitled
> "Quiet Places of the Lower Bann Valley" by John HUGHES and Donal
> BARTON.

> At the Church of Ireland in the parish of Duneane is Rody MacCORLY. It
> is in the townland of Lismacloskey and is the supposed site of an older
> church. When the monasteries were dissolved in 1542 Duneane and
> Drummaul had a monastery at Kells. After the Siege of Derry Major DOBBIN,
> a local landlord, pulled down part of the church. In 1615 the Bishop
> owned four townlands: Lismacloskey, Tamnamore, Cloghogue and
> Gortgill.
>

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