School: Carrigbyrne (roll number 4479)
- Location:
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire Cuirtéis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 471
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“The townlands in this parish of Adamstown are rather small not consisting of more than a dozen houses.”
(continued from previous page)a blessed well in Ballyshannon and its water is always icy cold.
The land around is marshy and boggy. There is a small field in Ballyshannon, overgrown with bushes and brambles with a small stream of flowing through it, called the "Kennels," so it must have been a beagle kennels long ago.
There is a ruin of a house in another field which is called "Evoy's field because an old woman named Kate Evoy was the last inhabitant of the house before it fell to ruins. Doyle is the family name most common in Ballyshannon. There are not many old people in Ballyshannon.
A lane which passes through Ballyshannon is the subject of a song called the "Ballyshannon Lane."
This song is given in first of book.
- Collector
- Jocie Crosby
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Wexford