School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Míleac, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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- (continued from previous page)about two hundred people. The people over seventy number about twenty. In olden times there were only a few fishermen in the village and they were situated very near the Shannon. On one occasion the bank broke opposite one of those houses which was occupied by a man, woman and child. The man and child were drowned and the woman escaped. She kept on to the timber roof and landed safely on a hill near by.
Some of the people use Irish words of which here are some; Drib, a drain. Dromar, a backstrap. Ladhróg, a drill. Nasar, a bed of straw. Ciseach, a path across a drain.
The most common names are Grimes and Hickey. The Hickeys were natives of Coonagh but the Grimes were not. They came up the Shannon one night on a turf boat.
- Collector
- Patrick Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cuanach Thoir, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- Denis Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Labourer
