School: Mount Collins, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10107)

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Mountcollins, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0493, Page 316

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    in the Barony of Glenquin. About twenty-six families and one hundred and thirty four persons. Lenihans family name most common. Slate thatch and Iron are the types of houses in numerical order. Eight persons over seventy years live there. Persons good for story-telling:-
    Paddy Dee
    John Fitzgerald
    Jack Roche
    Martanin (?) Martin (Lenihan)
    Nell Roche
    Jack Davy Leneihan
    Tommy Mick Lenihan
    Daitha (?) Davy Lenehan
    Mrs Sheehan
    Dáithin Davy Lenihan
    Mrs Sheehan, Daithin Davy Lenihan, Narry(?) Noctor (?) able to speak a little Irish and Mrs Sheehan

    Caher Beg in Parish of Mt Collins. Nine houses, fifty persons live there. Slated houses. Two are ironed and two thatched. All the houses were together and it was called a Caher Beg or Baile Beag.
    Jerry James O'Connor is over seventy years.
    Jerry James O'Connor, Maurice O'Connor and Danny Cahill and Phil Flanagan are able to tell stories.
    Family name most common is Flanagan and O'Connors

    Cnoc Cúl Caor (Knockalcare) in parish of Mt Collins got its name from a hill and berries grew in the Cúl of it. No of families = nineteen. No of persons = eighty.
    Slated thatch and Iron types of houses in numerical order
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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