School: Tairbeart (C.)
- Location:
- Tarbert, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0404, Page 078
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- (continued from previous page)dead and his coffin was being made where he got the traveller arrested. This travelled did no harm but the cholera was raging and the Knight contracted the disease from him.
Some old ruins of houses that were occupied during black '46 and '47 are situated on the Glin road. These tenants of those houses died of hunger and fever. They were all poor people.
The pier in Tarbert Island, also two large stores were built here in tarbert in "black '47". It gave much employment which was badly needed. All three were useful when the place became prosperous after the Famine years. They now serve as monuments of the vanished prosperity of Tarbert.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Mc Namara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballygoghlan, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- James Mc Namra
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Ballygoghlan, Co. Limerick
