School: Kilbride (roll number 11793)
- Location:
- Cill Bhríde, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Ní Mháirtín
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- (continued from previous page)Willie Gorey Kilbride, Irma and Patrick Fay Kilbride, Trim who is nearly eighty.
They can tell stories about the cricket they used to play in the old times.
There were a lot more houses in times gone by.
Very few people went to America or elsewhere.
The Priory land is very hilly and good. There is a wood in it and its name is the Priory wood. It is about a 100 yards long and 50 yards wide. There is one river coming from the well in Joyces and its name is the Drakeen river. There are no Lakes. There is a bridge over the Drakeen river and it is said that the black and tans used to watch the people under it.
- Our townland is Liskaroon which is in the townland of Killride. The are in very few houses in the townland of Liskaroon infact the only house that is in use now is ours. Our house is a thatched(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Imelda Keely
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Iskaroon, Co. Meath
