School: Ballyboy
- Location:
- Ballyboy, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs Gath
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0808, Page 264
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- about his grandparents and great grandparents. Gerard's father was born in Kilcormac Offaly his grandfather in Feakle Co. Clare and his great grandfather in Banagher, Co. Offaly. Gerard's great grandfather took many years to go from Banagher to Feakle Co. Clare because he was in charge of the making of a road which ran from Banagher to Portumna Killaloe Scarriff Feakle and ended at the Galway Boundary.
Some of that road is now disused but the most of it is still in use and is known in Clare as the "Norbury Line." This road was started principally as relief work to give employment to people who were hard hit after the Famine. The famine is never mentioned in this part of Offaly but the part of Clare which Gerard's great grandfather started work in was badly hit by both famine and cholera. The green ridges are still seen in the fields where the potatoes failed in black '47 and the people have a(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Occupation
- Farmer
