School: Cnoc Beithe, An Fhiacail

Location:
Knockbeha, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Maolruanaidh
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    Mrs Hassett, Mrs Mack, John O Dea, Michael Noonan Their addresses are Glynn, Caher, Feakle Co Clare.
    English stories are told by them all but a few of them are only able to speak Irish. The townland was more thickly populated long ago than it is at present. The people went to America and they were going to Australia and Africa long ago.
    Mary McNamara
    Knockbeha N.S.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. The name of my townsland that I live in is Knockbeha. How it got that name was that the birch was found grown in it. The Parish I live in is Killanena and the barony of this Parish is Upper Tulla. The number of families in Knockbeha are about fifteen. The number of people in this townland are seventy-nine The families that are most common are Moloneys. There are a good old people in this townland over seventy years. the oldest one is about 86 years. The most of them know a good deal of Irish. Such as Michael Collins, Mrs Collins and Mrs Lilles and also Mrs Sammon. These people live in my district. They can tell a great many of old stories in English, it is very few that they can tell in Irish. The houses were very scattered long ago they weren't as numerous as now
    James Hallinan
    Knockbeha N.S.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Hallinan
    Gender
    Male