School: Fearth Mór (Brooklawn) (roll number 15508)
- Location:
- Fartamore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Mhic Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0278
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- I live in Brooklawn a village in the Kilconly parish and in the Barony of Dunmore. There are eighteen home steads in my district. Long ago there were twenty in it.
The most common sirnames in the Brooklawn village are Dunnes and Byrnes. There is a good deal of old people in it:- Pat Kelly. Michael White, Mrs J.Byrne, Mrs John Byrne, Richard Ryan Mrs Ryan Mrs Pat Dunne, Pat Dunne
Mary Dunne and Mrs Kane they are all over seventy years. They have all the same address.
Brooklawn,
Kilconly,
Tuam,
Co. Galway
All those old people can speak the Irish language. A good deal of people went to America from this village. Each farmer has only nine or ten acres of land.
- Collector
- Margaret Dunne
- Gender
- Female
