School: Ballyhaise
- Location:
- Ballyhaise, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Thos. Plunkett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 303
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- Drumliff is my townland in the parish of Castletara, and in the barony of Upper Lough Tee. Fourteen families live in it or sixty people approximately. Phair, Reilly and Johnston are the family names most common.
The majority of the houses are thatched and the walls are mudwall. The mudwalls are thicker than the ordinary stone walls and are usually wider at the ground than the eaves and the gables are built up of sods.
Half a century ago the townland was very densely populated. There are ruins of over twenty houses and the places of some old dwellings are marked only by little hedges of egg-tree, rows of boxwood or clumps of daffodils. There are pointed out the places where the old hedge school master taught his school where the spinner, the tanner and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rosaleen Johnston
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Informant
- Edward Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Drumliff, Co. Cavan
