School: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)
- Location:
- Barraduff, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0457, Page 416
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- (continued from previous page)when older people met at their houses they often and often related their own experiences and though they advised against the practice and condemned it the children looked forward eagerly to the time when they would have similar experiences.The amount of fish destroyed in this way was enormous. I heard of a man who was captured by the police after killing a "hen" salmon. An expert at the trial swore that the killing of one fish meant the possible loss of twenty-five tons of salmon.About 1905 the I.A.W.S. started a Loan Bank in Glenflesk with a view to helping farmers through small loans at Interest which was calculated at the rate of 1 d per £1 per month.My father was chairman and the members, men advanced in years, held weekly meetings at our house. After each meeting members of the committee and borrowers sat around the fire were I heard many stories of the exploits of some of them who had been poachers in their young days.Mike Kelleher of Tullaha in the parish of Glenflesk was a noted fisherman.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
