School: Ballinatone, Rathdrum
- Location:
- Ballinatone Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teachers: Miss Stuart Miss Campbell
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- I live in the townland of Cronemore, in the parish of Ballinatone, in the Barony of Wicklow.
There are about eighty families in the townland, about four hundred people, there are a great lot of old people, in the townland, which tell old stories, not in Irish because they do not know it, but in English.
There were a great lot of houses which are now in ruins and in some places you would not know that there was a house there, the reason for all these houses was because there were mines not very far away.
There are also many wells, which there are tales about.
- My townland is Bahana Whaley, my Barony is in the barony of Wicklow.
My Home district is mosly going up the hill, and there is one or two bogs in it.
There are a lot of streams, and rivers in my home district, but they have mostly no name. There are about(continues on next page) - Collector
- Cecil Ireland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bahana (Whaley), Co. Wicklow
