School: O'Brennan, Baile Mhic Ealgóid, Tráighlí

Location:
Tonreagh Lower, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Loingsigh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0444, Page 389

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0444, Page 389

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: O'Brennan, Baile Mhic Ealgóid, Tráighlí
  2. XML Page 389
  3. XML “Local Heroes - Mowers”
  4. XML “Local Heroes - Dancing and Dancing Schools”

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. (continued from previous page)
    for his weekly hire, and was employed by farmers during the morning season often mowed an Irish acre of hay in the day.
    ii) Jer Hogan. Tylough. a labourer or spailpín who worked also with farmers during the mowing season often mowed an Irish acre in the day.
    iii) Tadhg Sheahan of Ballincullig - the owner of a small farm was also a great mower - often cutting slightly more than an Irish acre in the day,
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Dancing schools were held in this parish in the following places: Ballincullig, Cam, Shanaknock. These were probably held about 60 or 70 years ago. The teacher at Ballinculllig and Ceim[?] was Maurice Brosnan. (Jer Reid’s does not know where this man hailed from- but says he was a “tapping dancer”) The Teacher at Shanaknock was Pat Reidy of Castleisland Dancing was held in John Keane’s house and John O’Sullivan was the fiddle player. He does not know where OSullivan came from. He says that OSullivan also played at Ballincullig and Ceim.
    The Step-dancers at Ballincullig at that time used dance on the roadside in Summer and
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.