School: An Churrach (Crogh), Árd Fhionáin (roll number 7911)

Location:
Curragh, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Dubhshláine
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0572, Page 274

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0572, Page 274

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: An Churrach (Crogh), Árd Fhionáin
  2. XML Page 274
  3. XML “Baile Uí Meadhraigh - Ballyvera”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Baile Uí Meadhruigh = Ballyvera; O'Mara's Townland.
    Houses now = Eight
    Houses long ago = Ten
    Houses gone are,Mr Franklin's and Mr
    Fogarties
    Tatched Houses now =5
    Slated = 2
    alvanised Iron (Zinc) 1
    Three are three houss built with stone and mortar and cament. Five houses built with stone, mortar and clay.
    The fences are clay and stone and some of them are all stone.
    There are five native Irish Speakers in this townsland; Tom Mason, Raymond Condon, Mrs R Walsh, Mr Dalany and Mrs T Mason.
    Mr Fogarty was a smith and lived at Ballyvera Cross where he had his forge. He was an excellent smith but was a very small and very cross little man. In fact it is still applied to any small person, you are as small as Micilín Fogarty.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Location
    Ballyveera, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Alice Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    87
    Address
    Lodge, Co. Tipperary