School: Cnoc Beithe, An Fhiacail

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   Corlea is 94 years.The old people have very little Irish but some of them are very good story-tellers .The name of the old people are James Kiely, Padsy Walsh ,Jim Walsh, Pete and Paddy Gooney all these addresses are Corlea.This district was much more populated some ago but a good many of the old people are dead .The land of the place is fairly good. Some good.Some of it is rocky but the most of it it great to grow good crops.The make their living mostly on live stock.There is a wood bounding this district and in the Autumn the people go in flocks to the wood gathering nuts.

   

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   The district i live in is Glynn.it is situated in the parish of Killanena in the Barony of Tulla. The townland is small. There are ten families in the townland.There are about forty people living in the ten houses.The name most common is Broderick.There are six thatched houses and four slate houses in the townland.There are five old people over seventy years living in the vicinity.Most of the old people know Irish.the peoples'names are Mrs Broderick ,Mrs Hassett,Mrs Mack,John O'Dea,and Michael Noonan.Their addresses are Glynn,Caher, Feakle,Co.Clare.All the old people can speak Irish.The townland was more thickly populated some years ago than it is at the present day. day.There are five old ruins in the townland .Many people were

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   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nancy Mc Namara

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