School: Rathpeacon, Blackpool, Corcaigh (roll number 11761)
- Location:
- Ráth Phéacáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0389, Page 349
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- My Home District
The name of the townland where I am living is Kilcully. The origin of this name is got from the Irish work "Cil Coille" which means "The Church of the Wood".
There are thirteen families in my district. Their names are Lanes, Crowley, Murphy's, Hogan's, Buckley's, Keeffes, Looney's, Moynighan's, Ahern's, Briens's Lyons. there is a story told that with the last couple of centuries it was always Buckleys lived at Kilcully Cross.
Farm houses and cottages are the most popular types of houses in my district. There are only two people in my district over seventy. Their names are Mr & Mrs Murphy but neither of them know any Irish except a few words that they heard from their fathers and mothers before them.
The land in this district is good but not hilly. Houses and people were a lot more numerous before.
There is only one ruin around here it is called the "Cross Ruin" because(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cill Chúile, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr William Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cill Chúile, Co. Chorcaí
