School: Kellystown, Dunleer (roll number 3154)
- Location:
- Kellystown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chathail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 137
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- There are wooden vessels called noggins in Miss McDonnells and also in Miss Matthews, Trenchers in Faulkners of Cairntown.
- Famine Evictions :- After the famine and during it men and women were maintained by breaking stones for the County authorities. The food was their only wages and it consisted of Indian mash porridge twice daily boiled on the roadside. Galroostown means the "town of the red headed foreigner namely the Danes. The "Slough" - a corruption of the word Slieve is also included in the townland.
- Pishouges :- When there is a new calf in the farm there is a horse(continues on next page)
