School: Liostuathail (B.) 1.
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Haodha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 054
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Liostuathail (B.) 1.
- XML Page 054
- XML “The Churches”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The lands around Listowel were owned by Lord Landsdowne, a member of the Fitzmaurice family. A wealthy Englishman named Hare bought the lands from him in the year 1795. Later Hare was made Earl of Listowel. He visited Listowel in the year 1814 and gave sites for two churches. The protestant church was propably built the same year but the Catholic church was not built until the year 1829. The old Catholic church is said to have been situates at the back of the market. The spire of the Catholic church was not built until the year 1866. Gerald Griffin refers to the church in his book "The Collegians" Hardress Cregan and his mother were staying at Collopys hotel and they saw the people going to mass. This hotel is the house now known as Behan's and the lady of the house is a descendant of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Riobárd de Stac
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyassa, Co. Kerry
