School: Durrus, Bantry (roll number 13023)
- Location:
- Durrus, Co. Cork
- Teacher: L. Blennerhassett
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0285, Page 187
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- The name of my district is Blair's Cove, Durrus Bantry, Co Cork. It simply got its name because a landlord whose name was Blair built the house and occupied about forty or fifty acres with it. Then he called it after his own name.
There are only two houses in the district namely Blair's Cove House and my home which is situated in a corner of the land.
Only four families occupy the district, no one is over seventy nor can any speak Irish.
The houses are all slated and are of modern structure. There are no ruins of any old houses to be seen now but I have heard that a house once stood opposite my home down by the seashore. It seems that they were poor people who in years later emigrated to America.
The land of the district is rather level, save where the house is built it is rather high up. About one fifth of it is marshy and this part of it is known as the "Flat". It is grown over with rushes and "woodies"
It is not thickly wooded save a very small wood of Deal and Beech at its entrance gate and another growing around(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Dukelow
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolcoulaghta, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Herbert Dukelow
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolcoulaghta, Co. Cork
