A rood is an old medieval term for a cross. Another definition is a land measure about a quarter acre, so I'm sure it's the first you want. Maureen On Feb 26, 2011, at 1:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Gallivan and Corridon in Co Kerry ([email protected]) > 2. Impossible to read marriage record (Donna Russell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:38:37 EST > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Gallivan and Corridon in Co Kerry > To: [email protected], [email protected]oo.com.au, > [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Cathy, Charlie, et al: > > In Sept. 2001, I visited the townland of Glenderry out on Kerry Head, > specifically to visit the Kilvicada Church of the Corridon family (I was > interested in the archaeology, not the genealogy). Here are a couple of extracts > from the Ordnance Survey Letters of County Kerry from 1841, regarding this > site: > > === Situated in the Townland of Glenderry in this Parish are the remains > of an old church called Cill Mhic A Deaghaidh which signifies the Church of > the Son of Deaghaidh [snipped the description of the ruins of the church]. > It is said that this Church was built by Saint Macadeaghaidh, whose Holy > Well is situated on the shore to the East of the Church. In Smith's History > of Kerry p. 211 [orig. from 1756, 1979 Mercier Press reprint is p. 110], this > is described as "a small Chapel dedicated to an Irish Saint, called Mac Ida > where a rood, or image (a rude image, Q.?) of the Saint is kept, which is > held in great veneration by an old Irish family named Corridon, who settled > here some centuries ago, from the county of Clare and brought their tutelary > Saint with them. I have nowhere else met with any of that name in this > county." > > The only remains of the church are 4- to 6-foot-high walls, with the > interior dirt-filled to the top......a private burial ground. The church ruins > are certainly old, although perhaps not so ancient as the nearby fine church > ruin at Glendahalin East. There is a bilingual plaque on this church which > says (in English) "Ruins of a pre-Norman church dedicated to St. Erc, son of > Deaghadh, a bishop who lived at Lerig and was associated with St. Brendan. > Bishop Erc died A.D. 512 and was buried on Dunmore Head, opposite the > Blaskets. Privilege of burial here is reserved exclusively to local Corridon > families." > > I can't account for the difference between the St. Erc and Mac Ida names > [gr]. > > > Pete > .................................................... > Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts > </HTML> > > > ------------------------------ >