School: Cuilleán
- Location:
- Cuillaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: León P. Mac Eachmharaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 047
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- There was a poet named "Cormac [?] who used to visit this place often. He made up a poem about the "Barkins of Kilcoon Co. Galway. Those people used to feed him. As time went by the Barkins died and he made up a song about them
- Patrick McGough got the following information from Pat Huane aged seventy six years who got it from his father, Tom Huane, Boleyboy, Irishtown, who died at the age of seventy years, forty years ago.He told me that there was alot more houses in this locality long ago than there are now.There were three houses at the back of Mrs Beirne's house, Cullane. The names of these people were the O'Dowds, the O'Devaney's and the Sweeneys.All those people I have mentioned went away to other countries.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Mc Gough
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boleyboy, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Huane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Boleyboy, Co. Mayo
