School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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- Collector
- Joseph Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Michael Kenndy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- About thirty years ago there was a terrible plague of flue it killed a terrible lot of of people both young and old it was called the black flue no doctor could cure it. There was a dance in Kenadys barn at Barnderry. all the young people was trying to get out. The dance had to be stoped because there was to much getting weak Nearly everyone was there that night died
