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School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)

Location:
Ballinillane, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 601

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    One road running through part of this parish(Firies, Co. Kerry) is knows as the "Mail Coach Road". It is so called because a coach carrying letters used to go there before the railway was made. That coach was drawn by horses. The road was made about two hundred years ago. Another road about half a mile long in the parish(Firies) is called Bohereen Berry. I believe it is so called because strawberries are found growing on the dykes which for its fences. This latter road connects the mail coach road with another running parallel to it.
    During the famine period a road was made from a place called Coolbane(parish of Kilcummin) to a place called Coolick, in the parish of
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. public infrastructure
          1. roads (~2,778)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Curran
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gowlane, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    John Moriarty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Address
    Leamnaguila, Co. Kerry