1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh

School: St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh

Location:
Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
An Br. S. Ó Murchadha
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1027, Page 058

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1027, Page 058

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh
  2. XML Page 058
  3. XML (no title)
  4. XML (no title)

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

  1. (no title)

    “After the demolition of the Abbey Monastery the people of Kilbarron parish had no church to go to. After a number of years a church to meet the needs of the parish was built in the townland of Coolcolly...”

    Share Share Post
    You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.
    Cancel
    Transcription guide »
    By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dom Gillespie
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr John Gillespie
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal

  2. (no title)

    “During the years of the famine 1846-'47-'48 there was great poverty in the country. The majority of the people existed largely on coarse fish and Indian meal and many were not able to buy any kind of food...”

    Share Share Post
    During the years of the famine 1846-'47-'48 there was great poverty in the country. The majority of the people existed largely on coarse fish and Indian meal and many were not able to buy any kind of food. To feed these poor people the authorities provided free meals which consisted of Indian meal porridge which was generally for
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit