School: Coill Chláir (roll number 14276)
- Location:
- Kilclare, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Treasa Ní Oibeacáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 252
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Coill Chláir
- XML Page 252
- XML “Local Roads”
- XML “Local Roads”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The roads are known in my district as "Boreen", "Byroads", and "Trunk-roads". They lead from one town to another. They were made hundreds of years ago. There is an old tradition about the byroad at Ballinwing that connects the Ballinamore road with Kiltoghert graveyard. The people who were working at this road joined Owen Roe O'Neills army and it is said that the women furnished the road. There is not traffic on this road now. The other boreens were made during the Famine times.
- Collector
- Winnie Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheffield, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Sheffield, Co. Leitrim
- Some years ago an old road was made through our land. It was started at Gowel road and it went from that to the bogs. The people got the work of making this road as a relief work. The workmen got fourpence a day. this road is not of much use to the people now but sometimes they go(continues on next page)
