School: Lios na gCraobh (roll number 5341)
- Location:
- Lisnagreeve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: T. Ó Mórdha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0937, Page 196
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: Lios na gCraobh
- XML Page 196
- XML “Lisnagreeve”
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
- The school which I attend is Lisnagrieve and was thus named because of an old Lis or fort which once was a popular thing in the district. Personally I know very little concerning it, but my companions that know all about it practically say that it is very large in comparison with the majority of others in vicinity. It is about two mile long by three miles broad, with a rather large population of about one hundred or less people residing in it.
From the appearance of the crops I think it must be very fertile soil, as the crops of potatoes and oats seem most satisfactory, and I think of the most part deserve high prices. Around this particular part I think the land is fairly level with a few stony and rocky hills here and there, yet, in other parts I believe it is not quite so fertile.
Regarding the people I think they are fairly agreeable with each other, and as far as I know they are extremely generous and hospitable with everybody. Most of them(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Kettle
- Gender
- Female
