School: Ladhar (C.), Bán-Tír (roll number 8665)
- Location:
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Chéilleachair
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- The road that runs along by the school is called Lyre road. It is the nearest road from Millstreet to Cork. It is kept in good repair but it is not steamrolled.
There is a very old road which runs from Banteer to Cork, it goes through Coolroemore, Lyre, Nead an Fiolair, Caherivullane, Cloghroe to Cork.
Long ago, before the present road was made it was used by people who used take their butter in firkins to Cork. It is now only an old passage. The present road was made during the famine years, and only for it the people would die of hunger.
The pay was 6d a day and they had to work in all kinds of weather. They also had to work from dawn to dark.
There are many old Mass paths and people came to Mass over cliffs and fences and through bogs. People still come from Nadbeg the same path to Mass that was used by their forefathers, and they have to pass over a dangerous cliff. Children still come the same path to school and if one of them slipped she would be(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chéilleachair
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Informant
- James Kelleher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Lyre, Co. Cork
