School: Mullinavat Convent
- Location:
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Lorcán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0850, Page 199
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- I live in the townland of Glendonnell close by Mullinavat village. It is situated in the barony of Kilbeacon. There are five families living in it; - Dungans, Holdens, O'Briens, Hobans, and Murphys. There are eighteen people living in the district. All the houses are big. Three of them are white-washed and the rest are stone. The man who owned the Glen long ago was a Mr. O'Donnell and ever since it is called Glendonnell. All the people can tell stories in English, the one I think best at story-telling is Mr. Thomas Holden, Glendonnell.
In the time of the famine the people went as slaves on boats to America, and Australia for a meal and a few shillings a week. There is a song written about Mullinavat.There's a place in Kilkenny a beautiful spot,
There's no place in Kilkenny that could compare with that,
Tis there when he's tired a stranger will go,
To sweet Mullinavat where the rod Irons grow.Some of the land is hilly, and boggy and there is some good land in it too. There is a wood growing there which is known as Dungan's Wood. There is about 17 acres in it. There is a river running under the wood and it has no proper name.
- Informant
- Joseph Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
