School: Wilkinstown (roll number 1917)

Location:
Wilkinstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire Ní Failcheallaigh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 080

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 080

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: Wilkinstown
  2. XML Page 080
  3. XML “My Townland”
  4. XML “Our District”

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. The district in which I live in is situated about a mile to the west side of Wilkinstown, and it is called Arch Hall.
    It is a very small district and it consists of about two hundred Irish acres, and it has two houses built on it. The land is very level and is good for tillage and for grazing.
    It has a river flowing through it and it is called the "Yellow River." A big wood separates the Arch-Hall district from the Wilkinstown district and it is called the "Long Wood." The ruins of an old castle can be
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Location
    Arch Hall, Co. Meath
    Collector
    Brendan Brady
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Arch Hall, Co. Meath
    Informant
    James Halford
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Wilkinstown, Co. Meath