School: Baile 'n tSléibhe (B.) (roll number 1344)
- Location:
- Cornalee, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máirtín Mac Conchradha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0269, Page 114
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“There is no historical record to show what was the ruling family beyond on hundred or one hundred and twenty years...”
(continued from previous page)(d) The Pork Fallons were so called because in old times they practised the killing of pigs, and retailing them as pork in the market of Athlone.The class named under (c) acquired large tracts of land throughout the parishes of Dysart, Cam, and Tisara, and are still the most numerous and wealthiest people in these areas.One man named Big Billy owned about one thousand acres of land, and had many hands employed, during the famine years and afterwards. They usually worked for their support, which consisted chiefly of oat-meal stirabout and buttermilk.