School: Killahan
- Location:
- Killahan, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ríoghbhardáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 339
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“There are many places and fields around this locality called queer names.”
(continued from previous page)the field is called by that name.
Others say that it is because there are so many corners in the field that the name is "cúiníní", and not Cuailines.
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“There are eight or ten acres of glebe land in Killahan which one time belonged to the monks of Killahan Church.”
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- Duggan
- Address
- Killahan, Co. Kerry
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“The townland bounding Killahan on the west is Ballymacaquim.”
The townland bounding Killahan on the west is Ballymacaquim. The castle there was at one time occupied by a tyrant called Macaquim who had one daughter as cruel as himself. There were no national schools in those days, but learned men went round and taught in different places in what were called "hedge-schools", and(continues on next page)