School: Caiseal (roll number 16085)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Mághnuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0122, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)the road got a ticket for three or four stone of yellow meal as payment. Others of them who had no families or only one got five shillings. At that time there were only four carts in the district. The people who owned them were Terry Gallagher Curryronane, John McDermot Brackloon, James Kenny Derryronane and Andrew Kenny Carracanada. These men were not working on the roads because they were supposed to be too rich having carts.
It is not known when the road leading from Mannions on the Kilkelly road to Kilbride was made. The oldest woman in the district does not remember when it was made. Mrs. Morely said that she did not see any traffic on it except men in horseback and cows, and asses drawing turf in creels. She said that the mailcoach from Swinford to Dublin, used to travel on that road, but she never saw it herself.
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- Collector
- Delia Tunny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curryaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Morley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Curryaun, Co. Mayo
