School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 16_026
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- (continued from previous page)it carried them away. This was in the year 1931.
A rick of turf thirty feet long and twelve feet broad was burned at Killanda quay. It was burned by a man who was an enemy of the owner.
When the Famine came all the people of the place were dying with the hunger. It was said there was a garden of turnips near by and if any person went inside the ditch for a turnip were shot.
About a mile from the point of the Island a young boy age 19 years who lived in Ballybonnery went bathing on the fifteenth of August 1898 and was drowned. A crowd of boys who were with him ran away screaming when they saw him drowning. Then a boat and net came to his aid(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pádraig Bairéad
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnaminsha, Co. Kerry
