School: Ballynacargy (C.) (roll number 7893)
- Location:
- Baile na Carraige, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Óda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 380
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- (continued from previous page)the people themselves. A couple of them on which people are living were made eight or nine years ago by the County Council.
Roads were made as a relief work during the Famine Period. The people who worked at the road-making got a penny per day and they got their supper of yellow meal.
Some rivers were crossed by means of fords at shallow places. There is a ford across the River Inny at Empor. Tossing is carried on at crossroads. Bonfires are lit on the crossroads on certain feast-nights.
- Collector
- Mary Ward
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Rath, Co. na hIarmhí
