School: Doirín Árd, Béal Átha an Dá Chab (roll number 15969)
- Location:
- Cappagh More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Dubhgáin
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- The name of my town-land is Ballybawn which mean the 'White land". There are twenty five families in Ballybawn and the people amount to one hundred and ten.
The names most common are Murphy, OBrien, Barry, Lynch, Driscoll and Sullivan.
All the houses are rectangular in shape and the chimneys are rectangular also. The houses are all slated only one little house above near Ballybawn hill, which is thatched. In this a man called Attridge lives.
- Collector
- Pat Joe Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballybane West, Co. Cork
- My townland is Ballybawn.
Ballybawn is an Irish name meaning the white land. There is white bog cotton on the top of Ballybawn called Cahir. It is bounded by a little river called the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Anna O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybane West, Co. Cork
