School: Cullies
- Location:
- Cullies, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: James Clarke
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 007
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cullies
- XML Page 007
- XML “My Home District”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- 18th October 1937
My Home District
I live in the townland of Drumamuck the parish of Knockbride and the barony of Clankee. There are twelve families in the townland of Drumamuck. The name most common is Mc Breen. There are about forty people in this townland .
About half the houses are slated and the remainder thatched. The word Drumamcuk means a pig's back. The townland got its name because its shapes is that of a pigs back. There are five old age pensioners living in the townland. There is no difference in the number of houses for the past seventy years. A few people from the townland are in America. The land is hilly, fairly fertile and produces good crops.
There is one lake on the border of Drumamuck called the White lake. There is a river running from the White lake through the middle of the townland. This is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Monica Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumamuck Glebe, Co. an Chabháin
