School: Feighroe, Inish

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1. Kilcolumb (continued)

   

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   I often heard my Aunt talking about the food they had long ago. At breakfast they used to have stirabout. Sometimes they had to go out and cut the corn. The women of the house had to go out and cut the corn and bring it in. They used to have potatoes and milk for their breakfast also. They used to have no coats going to school but shawls. The old people sowed flax. We have a lot of fields at home and these are the names of them. Field of the fort, the cuilín, the big meadow, the paipcín, the Inch, The Cuppough, An pae mór, Poll na caillúip because a tailor was drowned there long ago.

   

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2. Knocknakilla

   

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   Knocknakilla was so called because Knock means a hill and killa a cill or burying ground. There is a burying ground in the coill and it is said that a Priest was buried there and there is a whitethorn bush covering the grave. There is a Blessed Well also in Knocknakilla and the

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Laurence Kennedy

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mrs Patrick Kennedy

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilmaley, Co. Clare