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School: Na Corráin (roll number 9938/9)

Location:
Currans, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Cormac Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 226

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    The name of our townland is Curranes and my parish is Castleisland & my barony is Trughenachemy. Curranes gets its name from the river which flows around it and which is its course forms a reaping-hook bead.
    There are seventeen families living there, numbering about eighty people in all. Hickey is the name most common.
    All the houses are thatched or slated. Houses were more numerous in former times but the ruins of many of the houses are there yet. There are five people over seventy years of age there but only one of them is able to speak Irish.
    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
    Currans, Co. Kerry
    Collector
    Con Hickey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Currans, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mr Dan Hickey
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Currans, Co. Kerry