School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)
- Location:
- Slane, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Josephine Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 282
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- (continued from previous page)people the time of the famine. This field or part of the Conyngham estate is known as Carrys Hill and all the trace of life that now remains is a few spruce trees and an old well that supplied those citizens of an now extinct and as Goldsmith wrote the deserted village and what I would like know was this village ever marked on our survey maps. But there is more than a farm at the end of this boreen there is a lot of memories for many as an old man told me as he shook his head a "Cailin" said he that was the stirring place a few years ago. My father was born there in that little valley. What valley I asked him. Oh don't you know that all those bright spots you see and those big hillocks all round that little valley. My father said he told him(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gernonstown, Co. Meath
