School: Barnaran, Rathangan (roll number 10454)
- Location:
- Barnaran, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Lochlainn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0778, Page 180
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- (continued from previous page)the motor in which the couple-were.Some of the boys used to dress up and put straw around their legs. Then they used to go to the wedding house and dance about. If the man did not give them something they would do some harm on him.
- There was a big storm on the twenty sixth of February Eighteen Hundred and Ninety Nine. Trees were blown down and roads were blocked and houses were stripped. Ricks of straw and hay were blown away There were a lot of sheep and cattle killed.
- There is a Rath in Drimsree Rathangan Co. Kildare. There is the remains of a road which the Danes used across the fields to the rath. There is a a circular ditch and a circle of bushes around it. There is another Rath in Ballyteague about a half a mile away from it, and you could see from one to the other. There was a man walking(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Cheallaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Drumsru, Co. Kildare
