1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Sonna

School: Sonna (roll number 1422)

Location:
Kildallan, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Mrs O' Connell
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 235

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 235

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: Sonna
  2. XML Page 235
  3. XML “Home 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. Home District

    Share Share Post
    Tristernagh is my town-land and it is in Ballynacargy parish. There are about twenty one families in it. There are wight thatched houses, and the rest are slated.
    I do not know how Tristernagh got its name. There are eight people over seventy, Mrs. Early, Mrs. Whyte, Mrs Flood, Mrs. Noonan, Mrs Murray, Ned Melia, Andrew Hafford and James. There do not tell in Irish, nor in English.
    The houses were much more numerous long ago in the town land than now as there are the ruins of thirteen old houses in it. Some of the
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Tristernagh, Co. Westmeath
    Collector
    Michael Mulligan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Occupation
    Schoolboy
    Address
    Grange, Co. Westmeath