School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)
- Location:
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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- I live in the townland of Carrowbeg, in the parish of Moville, in Inishowen, Co. Donegal. There are six families in Carrowbeg and fifty-five people. Lafferty is the most common family name in it. There are six slate houses, and one thatched house. Carrowbeg means "the small quarter-land." There is one old woman over seventy years of age in Carrowbeg. She can tell stories in English, but not in Irish and her name and address is: - Mrs. Sarah Faulkner, Carrowbeg, Moville, Co. Donegal.
Houses were more numerous locally in former times. There are eleven houses in ruins and they belonged respectively to the Hamiltons, the Vickys, the Boyles, the Dohertys, the Baxters, the Banns, the Mac Eldowneys, the Longs, the Mac Laughlins, the Baskills and the Mac(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peter Faulkner
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowbeg, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- James Faulkner
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Carrowbeg, Co. Donegal