School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 24_007
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- (continued from previous page)and the man was thrown inside the ditch and was killed.
There was a great accident in the railway, a man named Patrick Hartnett was killed by the six o'clock train one evening about five years ago. He was lying on the rails and he never saw the train coming on and it rolled over his two legs and battered them. The driver stopped the train and took him into it and carried him into the hospital and that night he died.
George Heuston's hay shed was burned in the year 1900. About twenty tons of hay was burned in him. There was a monastery in Ennismore and friars lived there, and when the war began they were all killed, and George Heuston knocked the monastery and he built a new shed out of the doors, it is there still.
The Ennismore railway gates were broken(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Dhuilleáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Dillon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ennismore, Co. Kerry
