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School: Cill na dTor, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 16254)

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Kilnadur, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Donnabháin
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  1. A Story of the Bad Times

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    John Doheny was the first tenant in the farm in which Kilnadur school is built. He came from Fethard, Tipperary. He was an exemplary man and was most charitable. All the servants, in his employment, were not over-worked and got the same treatment as his own family. In those days servants were not better treated in the way of food than the beasts of the field. They were real slaves. There were no roads only rough passages through the country. There were no vehicles of any kind only the srathar fhada. That means two kitches - panniers - constructed in such a manner that one was on each side of the horse. In those kitches the manure was drawn from the farm-yards to the
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Cotter
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilnadur, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Jeremiah Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Kilnadur, Co. Cork