School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)

Location:
Skerries North, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
E. Tansey
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  1. There are fifteen (in) families in Fontstown Dobbyns Mileys Heffernans Floods Moors Flemings, Goodwins, Gings Crosses, Floods Edgehills Deverals Barrys, Flemings, Heffernans. There are two families of Heffernans two families of Floods and two families of Flemings. There is a churchyard in Fontstown. It is at the back of Dobbyns house. There is an old church in the middle of the churchyard. It was a Catholic Church. The church was burned down about 200 years ago. No one knows why it was burned.
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    3. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Fontstown Lower, Co. Kildare
    Collector
    Nancy Fleming
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Fontstown Lower, Co. Kildare