School: Killeen, Granard (roll number 13752)
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Ó Duibhgeanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 435
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- (continued from previous page)When they are about they are always begging every day. They come at Easter for eggs and on fair days they a lot of alms because a lot of people are in the fair. Very seldom they bring news from distance parts and very seldom people listen to them they get their alms and them go. In my district the road never missing them.An old man in my district told me this and his age is years.
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Local Place Names
There were a lot of names given to fields, streams, hollows heights and rocks. There is a field in my district and it is called the black field it got that name because it has black clay it belongs to Mr Flood Ballymore. There is another one called the black hill because sloe bushes grow on it Mr Mccabe is the owner of it. There is a field in Larry Smyth's land called the Crochan(continues on next page) - Collector
- Annie Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymore, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mr Smyth
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Ballymore, Co. Longford
