School: Muirnín (roll number 3968)
- Location:
- Murneen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Mháille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 102
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- The name of my village is Mace, and it is in the parish of Kilcolman.
There are thirty houses in our village and half of them are slated and the other half are thatched with straw.
There is no ruins of any old buildings in our village except the ruins of an old laundry which belonged to the landlords.
In our village there is no large river except a small river which divides two villages and it flows into a lake called bultibo lake.
The most popular sirname in our village is Prendergast.
In our village there are twenty people over seventy years and some of them are great story tellers.
In our village there are five hundred acres of land and one sixth of it is bad and the rest is good land.
Every farmer in our village has thirty acres of land and an acre of bog.
There are no woods in our village except one small one and it is nearly all cut away.
- Collector
- Seán Ó Cathmhaoil
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mace Middle, Co. Mayo
