School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dún Béacáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 079
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- (continued from previous page)owned by two Sweeney families. The townland got its name for a little hill - in Irish it being Sean Tulac which means a little old hill.
There is only one person who is over seventy in Shountellig at present - as one man died lately. This one is my Grandmother who knows a little Irish. She can speak Irish fairly well but she cannot read or write Irish and any stories told by her are told in English. She told me that her father and mother spoke nearly always in Irish and they always said their prayers in Irish.
Th people were much more numerous before the Famine than they are now. There were many(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tSeantulaigh Thuaidh, Co. Chorcaí
