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School: Sliabh an Mhadra (C.)

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Slievawaddra, Co. Kerry
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Eibhlín Ní Chearbhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0416, Page 223

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    “The townland of Clashmealcon of the caves is in the parish of Killury and in the Barony of Clanmaurice in North Kerry”

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    new houses were built and they are nearly all slated.
    There are a few men over 70 living there and they know very little Irish although in their young days they heard a fine old Irish tongue from the old people that lived then.
    There were twice that number of houses because hundreds of the people emigrated to America and their lonely Ochone is still thought of in the early mornings.
    There are no bogs or woods in this place nor streams but small rivulets running into the sea as this spacious townland overlooks the Lordly Shannon
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy O' Neill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Causeway, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    James O' Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Causeway, Co. Kerry