School: Kilrush (roll number 14039)
- Location:
- Baile na Bearna, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: C. E. Kidd
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there and when they were going to bed the woman had to lift the children on the loft.Sonny Pierce
Ballyroebuck,
Clohamon.Inform recd. Wm. Pierce
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- My home district is situated in the townland of Ballyroebuck, which is in the parish of Kilrush and barony of Scarawalsh. Ballyroebuck was a deer forest once.
There are nine families of farmers in the townland. These are Dalys, Doyles, Whites Carrolls, Keoghs, two families of Roches, and two families of Pierces. There are five cottages, Colmans, Ronans, Moores, Maguires and Conways. All the houses are slated except Colmans and this house is thatched. In former times houses were more(continues on next page) - Collector
- Sonny Pierce
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Robac, Co. Loch Garman
- (continued from previous page)and started for America, and is married there. He has a farm.Henry Levingston
