School: Cill Fhínghín (roll number 16222)
- Location:
- Killeeneen More, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033, Page 0313
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- (continued from previous page)Or dance a jig or reel while Raftery would play
Upon his good old fiddle
His comrade night and day.
Told by Mary Corbett,
Killeeneen
Craughwell
- Glan na Mboéc, In the years 1847 and 1848 the time of the famine a lot of people died with the hunger. The people were found dead in the sides of a road at that time. The people that died at that time were buried in fields or any old place because they were very poor and had no money. There is a field near Lavally belonged to Patrick Ryder Killeeneen and it is called "Glan na mboéc" because at that time there was a man herding his sheep and he died with the hunger and was buried in that field and the field was called "Glan na mboéc".
There is also a field called "Gort na leice" because the land is all flags "Gort Rusid" because the land is red.
Cataur" because there is a fort in it.
"Gort fearna" because there is a wall going right through the middle of the field.
Paigéin beag because the field is very small only suitable for calves. - Informant
- Michael Forde
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Killeeneen More, Co. Galway
