School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 206
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- (continued from previous page)house in the Glebe field at the entrance to Ardcrone church. She was blind.
- This was an old custom in Kerry long ago. When people were building new houses, they put the bones of a dead animal of theirs, under a flag near the kitchen fire.
Long ago, when the eggs were hatched, the woman of the house would not throw away the egg-shells at all, but would put them up on the wall of the cow-house.
This was an old custom in Kerry long ago, that when the sow would have bonhams she and her bonhams would be brought into the kitchen,(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Brosnan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gurteenroe, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Jer Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Gurteenroe, Co. Kerry
