1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Leac Snámha (B.)

School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)

Location:
Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 017

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0411, Page 017

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Leac Snámha (B.)
  2. XML Page 017
  3. XML “My Home District”

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

  1. My Home District

    Share Share Post
    My house is situated in the townland of Kiltomey. The word "Kiltomey" means "church of the tombs". There is a graveyard in the west of the townland and in this graveyard are the ruins of an old church. Kiltomey is in the parish of Kilcaragh. This is in the barony of Clanmaurice which is in the county of Kerry. In the townland live eight families and a single man, the approximate number of persons being forty-eight.
    The family name most common is Barrett and in the townland of Kiltomey there are two families of that name. There are nine houses in it, five covered with slate, three houses thatched, and one covered with corrugated iron. The people of Kiltomey are mostly all young people with the exception of one person who is about seventy years of age but is
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Kiltomy, Co. Kerry
    Collector
    Jeremiah Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kiltomy, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Patrick Mulcahy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kiltomy, Co. Kerry