1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Lisnafunchin, Castlecomer

School: Lisnafunchin, Castlecomer (roll number 16230)

Location:
Lisnafunshin, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Ml. Ó Riagáin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 073

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0864, Page 073

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Lisnafunchin, Castlecomer
  2. XML Page 073
  3. XML “Connery the Ploughman”

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

  1. Connery the Ploughman

    Share Share Post
    In Kilcollan there was a man named Connery. The times were very bad. He had one sister. He was a great ploughman. The only wages he could earn was sixpence a day to support himself and his sister. He was ploughing for a man by the name of Woods in Sumertan. Not having food enough to eat he ate some of the horses food at dinner time. He to a pain one day and died within an hour. His sister had no one to support her then she died of hunger in the little cabin in Kilcollan
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    2. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Dunne
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Michael Downey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcollan, Co. Kilkenny