School: Kilmurry (C.) (roll number 10395)
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mrs Ellen Mary O' Connor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0448, Page 360
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- There lived here an old man name Miceal Culloty near "Tobar na bcionn. He was also called Shaver because he used always shave the dead men. There are no remains of his house in Lyons field where he lived. He earned his living by working for the farmers and he used make straw hats out of straw in the Winter for to sell them to the young girls.
Two shillings he used charge for the hats. He was married and his wife died at seventy five and himself and the age of eighty two.
This is told to my by my fathers farmer, age 62 years.
