School: Scoil na Mainistreach (roll number 1793)
- Location:
- Killarney, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An Br. P.C. Mac Niallghuis
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0455, Page 160
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Scoil na Mainistreach
- XML Page 160
- XML “Tiarna Talún”
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
- (continued from previous page)who received land from Cromwell in the bad old days. The present Lord Kenmare is very decent to his tenants, but its said his ancestors were not so considerate.
There was a public road below the mansion hill at that time and many people lived near it. One day Kenmare informed the people that he was going to take over the road as part of his estate. He gave each family £5 and told them to clear out, to America, if they liked. The fare was only fifty shillings at that time. This story can be vouched for by many people yet alive.
A few years back there was another powerful landlord in my locality. His name was Vincent. He owned the Muckross Estate, but about three years ago, he presented it to the Government as a public park.
- Informant
- Jeremiah O Mahoney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Killarney, Co. Kerry
