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Colonel Grove White, Born Melbourne, Australia 1852 died Cork 1938, Cork Antiquarian, Member County Council, Munster Agricultural Society

Grove White Notes, Cork Past and Present Doneraile:

In the year 1834 an ancient amulet was dug up near Doneraile, and
was in the collection of Mr. Anthony, of Pilltown. It was in the form of
a species of murrain caterpillar. These amulets were used as charms for
the cure of the murrain in cattle, and it is singular that the two only known
specimens have been found in the county Cork. (Smith i., 233.)

The Field Book of the Ordnance Survey, 1840, gives an account of the
Parish of Doneraile as follows:—”This is a large townland. Its antiquities
are—13 Danish forts, 1 old church, 2 graveyards, 3 old castles,
1 church, about 26 gentlemen’s houses, several streams and rivers, about
16 demesnes, 2 mills, a small post…

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