1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Killahan (B.)

School: Killahan (B.)

Location:
Killahan, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Liam Ó Leathlobhair
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 214

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 214

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: Killahan (B.)
  2. XML Page 214
  3. XML “Famine Times”
  4. 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

  1. Famine Times (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    said that anyone who had a pointer of yellow bread and put it up on a pike and went to the bog four or five men would follow him to the bog and stay working with him all day to see who would get the bread.
    The people were very glad to work for two pence a day at that time and work hard for it. In the time of the famine the people were so hungry that one man stole a turnip out of a garden and the owner saw him and shot him on account of stealing the turnip.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit

  2. My Home District

    Share Share Post
    The townland of Fortwilliam derived its name in former years from the landlord of the estate at the time.He settled down there so he called the townland Fortwilliam. There are twelve families and 39 people in this townland. Their names are Brassils, Costelloes, Mauntsells, Brosnans, Fitzgearlds, Hilliards, Brownes, Carrols, Cantys, Learys, and Rahillys. The Fitzgearlds and Cantys are the old stock of the townland. All the remaining houses are the same only the Fitzgearlds and Cantys built two new houses. There are seven people in the townland over 70 years. Some of them could tell old stories in English.
    There stands in the vicinity of Fortwilliam the ruins of 2 old houses in John Dowd's land a great house. It is all windows and doors with no roof and it is surrounded with trees. In old times people used to enter a passage in Tralee for America to the sailing agents of ships. The day appointed for the ship to leave New York, the people would go to Tralee by
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Killahan, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    John Conway
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Killahan, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Tim Canty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Killahan, Co. Kerry