School: Dernakesh (B)
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Comhraidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 443
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- There are eleven families in my towland, named McPpillips, Kettle, Tackney, Keenan, Tegan, Mc.Bride, Brady, McGee, Woods, Kettle, Mc Cafre.
The general type of houses, a kitchen and a room on each side.
There are three old people in Killarue, Mrs Berney, Mrs. Tegan, and Frank Mc.Gee. Mrs Berney tells stories in English.
There are sixteen houses in my townland, two of them empty. Mr. Cunningham owned one of them and his wife and he died and it was put up for sale, and my father bought it. Barney Mc. Gorman owned the other he also sold it to my father and went to Co. Cavan.
My townland got its name from an old red church that was situated on Mrs. Cunningham's hill. No remembers any thing about it, or can give any account where the ruins were.
Part of it is hilly and a small part of it boggy round the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Terry Woods
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killyrue, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Berney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killyrue, Co. Cavan
