School: Leachtbhruadair (Loughfooder) (roll number 14366)
- Location:
- Lackbrooder, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mícheál P. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0450, Page 169
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- The following account was related by Sarah Tobin of Loughfouder, Knocknagoshel, Co. Kerry.She is now eighty years of age. She is a native of Loughfounder and has lived there since childhood. The Story was recorded in this book in November 1938.-----------There was an old road running through the townland of Loughfouder before the present road was made. The old road was called the "Board of Works" Road and it is not used now.It was made during the Famine to give employment to poor people.Women were given work on it as well as men and in about equal numbers.Sixpence a day was the pay of those who made it.This old road started near Tim Doody's cottage, Knockachur, and ran along the right bank of the little river Abá béag, that is, on the Loughfouder side of it, for a distance of about two miles, as John Horan's Cross in Knockbrack, Knocknagoshel. Thus it led from Knockachur to the Castelisland-Brosna road that is still in use.[This Castleisland-Meenleitrim-Brosna road sent a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mícheál P. Ó Murchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocknagashel, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Sarah Tobin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Lackbrooder, Co. Kerry
