School: Caisleán an Droma, Caisleán na Mainge
- Location:
- Castledrum, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Bhriain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0432, Page 296
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- (continued from previous page)Of Castledrum. He was dieing of hunger and he knelt near the carcass of a dead horse. He ate the diseased flesh until it killed him.
The potato crop failed when attacked by the Blight commonly called it 'the blast' so people pulled chicken-weed + nettles and boiled them and ate them. Some drank sheep milk and others gathered sea-weed and caught fish of all description.
- The poet best known (to) the inhabitants of Keel was Maurice Kerin. (Muiris Ó Céirín) who was a native of Castlemaine and a weaver by trade.He had four brothers, one of whom is buried in Keel graveyard and the stone slab which marks his grave is dated 1797. The poet Maurice lived for a long time after that date. He was twice married and his second wife was a native of Keel, and was named Sheila Evans. His preference for his 1st wife is told in verse as follows:-
"Léun ar an mbreacarnach grándha buídhe,Do rug uaim ón talaim seo báb an ghrínnGo mbféarr liom a seasamh nar scáth san ngaoíth'Ná Síghle, is dá mbeadh aice an Mhágach"(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mrs Katherine O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Eugene O' Sullivan
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- Parent
- Gender
- Male
