School: Snaidhm (C.) (roll number 11799)

Location:: Sneem, Co. Kerry
Teacher:: Mrs Palmer

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The Names of Fields and Places (continued)

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was also killed in the same place. There is a place called "leac a Cluanain" the headstone under which Cloyne was buried and another place called "Scrahanagáir" or the field of slaughter. There was a battle in the place in the time of the Fenians & there were so many killed, in it that the place got that name.

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Trades Long Ago

There are very few traces, if any, of the trades which were practiced in olden times. They "were simple" & people of necessity had to make things which were really necessities of life. They had to provide clothing, heat, light food utensils etc & the simple trades necessary for this purpose were handed down from father to son & from mother to daughter. For light people used candles which they made of rendered fat. This was poured into a mould which contained a cotton wick & was

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