School: Brittas (roll number 12217)
- Location:
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: B. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0794, Page 478
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- Brittas is situated in the town-land of Brittas, barony of lower Talbotstown, parish of Saggart, and in the Co. Dublin.
It is not very densely populated.
It has a population of about sixty three people.
Long ago there were more houses, and people in this locality, but at the time of the famine, they emigrated to America.
There are two beautiful lakes in it.
There were two reasons in making those, first, for fishing, and second, for the mill in Saggart.
Not very far from this place, there are two woods,
Those woods were sowed by the Land-Lord, George Hornidge, to represent Wellington's army at Waterloo.
- Collector
- Séamus Ó Dubhda
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brittas, Co. Dublin
- Middy-noddy, round body, three feet, and a wooden hat?
A pot.
