School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)
- Location:
- Ballinillane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 575
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- (continued from previous page)ground adjacent to the path of the hare or rabbit, thus [illustration] (stick stick in ground). [Noose in which hare or rabbit is caught.]
- One day in the Famine Times a poor man went into the house of Dan Foley, Leamnaguilea, parish of Ballyhar, Co Kerry. In a vessel in the kitchen floor there was a mash prepared for pigs. The poor man went to this vessel and ate some of the mash. Then he went out to the haggard and died.
This district (Leamnaguilea, parish of Ballyhar, Co Kerry) was thickly populated before the Famine. People still point out the sites of the old dwellings.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Michael Downey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Caherdean, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Moriarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry
