School: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)

Location:
Barraduff, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0457, Page 293

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0457, Page 293

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: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)
  2. XML Page 293
  3. XML “Old Trades - Curled Hair”
  4. XML “Old Trades - Rope Mending”

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. (continued from previous page)
    and instantly obeyed it.
    From that day prisoners were made to march in one direction for only a part of the time for exercise and the direction was reversed for the remainder of the time.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. In the townland of Curreal in the parish pf Glenflesk, Co Kerry lived a man named Denis D O'Doneghue. He was called Denny Mary Murphy. His father died when the family were young and as is the habit the boys were called after the mother. Curiously enough the only girl in the family who was the youngest was called Ellen Denis because Denis was the Father's name. Denny Mary Murphy died about eight years ago at the age of about sixty six. He was a rope mender and the only one I ever heard of. He was also a basket and sciacóg maker. He had a farm of fifteen cows worked now
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. trades and crafts (~4,680)
          1. rope-making (~133)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir