School: Tír na nEascrach
- Location:
- Tír Chinn Eascrach, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Eamonn Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0058, Page 0216
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- (continued from previous page)the age of 80 told me that he remembered one night when they had nothing in the house but a turnip. The father and mother ate the skin and gave the good part of the turnip to the children.
- Family Names that were plentiful before the Famine in this locality are known no longer
There were families of Lambes and Davies in Tiernascragh.
Kilcro's lived in Kill
Segerton lived in Kill (Segerton's Garden still there)
Patk Nevin tells of a family Kenny in Kill who had 7 acres of land. They left for America without telling anyone. They did not even(continues on next page) - Informant
- John E. Bohan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tír Chinn Eascrach, Co. na Gaillimhe
