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School: Cnoc an Iubhair (C.)

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Kealid, Co. Kerry
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Máire Ní Cheallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0405, Page 309

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    “Knockanure burial ground lies on top of the hill of Knockanure...”

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    in the stream which flows at the County bounds of this parish at Cooleen.
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  2. Lady Day in Knockenure

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    The Christmas festivities were hardly over, when the general topic of the day in this parish, from fifty to a hundred years ago, was who would be evicted this Lady Day no one dared to ask the estate bailiff. Batt and his undermen, the rent-warner too was not asked so the whole thing remained a mystery until the day arrived. But the timid folk had already made their ground sure that they would not be among the evicted ones by making presents to the estate bailiff. The fiery sons of the soil, too proud to bend the knee waited for the day like caged lions and were it not for shreer dread on the
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    Language
    English
    Informant
    Daniel Mac Mahon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    43
    Address
    Lissaniska, Co. Kerry