School: Baile an Londraigh (B.) (roll number 14305)
- Location:
- Ballylanders, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Buachalla
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“Kenefick's father, John Kenefick also, told me about the famine years. The people ate the grass, dock and sorrel...”
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“This man had a brother Jeremiah Kenefick whose house was very old and in danger of falling so he decided on building a new one beside the old one in an angle of a cross...”
This man had a brother Jeremiah Kenefick whose house was very old and in danger of falling so he decided on building a new one beside the old one in an angle at a cross.They dug the foundation and were just putting in the first coat of masonry when one day a little old woman, neatly done up, whom they had never seen before, walked in and sat down talking to Mrs Kenefick (Joan Hanley) and her four daughters.She asked Mr Kenefick to tell her husband and her son Will who were outside mixing mortar not to build there or if they would, not a man of the Keneficks would ever enjoy it, as(continues on next page)