School: Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.)
- Location:
- Ballineen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Beircheart Seártan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0310, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)(Chuala ón a sheana mhuintir -Up to about a hundred years ago people used to tuck the flannel and frieze in their homes. The used to make soap of tallow, and in tucking they used urine: People having cloth to tuck would go about the country gathering a supply of this. The cloth was placed soaking in a tub of the mixture and trampled. This process was known as "walking")
AinmneachaThe Buaile Bhán
Páirc na CathARA
Bóthar na mná maribhe -
(an old passage leading from Droumfeigh through Buckaree (par. of Kenneigh). People died here in the famine and were buried on the roadside. Passage not used since the "new" road was made - that is about seventy years ago) (ó Mrs Ellen Hurley, Dromfeigh 75 - 1934)
Páirc an Bhácúis - (ó déanamh na páírce - )
The "Fair-hees" - "Fair-thíz" -
- A wet slope covered with coarse grass, and having a few clumps of Sally. Reputed to be haunted. - "A lonesome place"(continues on next page)
- Informant
- B. Seártain
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Fehilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballineen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Ellen Hurley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Dromfeagh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr William Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Dromfeagh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr William Shorten
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanagh, Co. Cork
