School: Baile na hEaglaise (Chapeltown)

Location:
Chapeltown, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó hAiniféin

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 268

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At the South-east corner of the Island I was told there once was a mill for grinding corn. It is marked on the enclosed sketch-map, no trace of it exists today.
I was told by John Slattery in whose land the mill was that the driving power was the sea-water which was trapped at high-water in Spring-tide on this low beach and the mill wheel was turned by the escaping water as the tide went out.
There once was a big village at this part of the island as the owner of the land often met with foundations of houses and lots of cockle-shell dumps in this area. About 100 yds from where the village stood is a spring well about 8 ft deep which supplied them with water. An old Bittling stone still stands at the [weel?].

[??] na Cilpe.
This is at the south of the island, facing the main-land, indicated on sketch-map also is [?].
Here Kelp was burned years ago as the name indicates. The Kelp I was told was not for sale but made solely in order to bleach the linen thread, then extensively grown and used in Fenit district.

Collector
Mícheál Ó hAinféin
Gender
male
Occupation
múinteoir
Address
Tralee, Co. Kerry
Informant
John Slattery
Gender
male
Age
68
Occupation
farmer
Address
Fenit, Co. Kerry
Language
English