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School: Collinstown

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Collinstown, Co. Westmeath
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T. Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0722, Page 179

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    this district is Christopher Kennedy, who owns a farm consisting of about one hundred acres. Seven of which is under tillage, about fifteen or sixteen under meadow, and the remainder in grazing. His stock consists of about fifty head of cattle, ten milking cows, eighteen calves, seventy sheep, one hundred lambs, three horses, one pony, and six pigs.
    There are sixteen families living in this district. The oldest family of this sixteen is Bessie Lynch, eighty six years of age, and living in a little thatched cabin with her dog Brownie.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Kilcumny, Co. Westmeath
    Collector
    Mairséal Ní Mhaoileóin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilcumny, Co. Westmeath