School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)
- Location:
- Buckode, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Muiris Mac Gearailt
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- In the townland of Kinlough stands the remains of an old Bonehouse which, it is locally said, was established about the time of the famine as a relief work to aid the poor people of the vicinity.
A man named Philip the Boneman used to through this district buying the bones of old horses and cows and afterwards he sold them to the Johnstons of Kinlough who owned the factory.
This old factory was worked by a horse churning machine and the people of the district worked there for four pence per day.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Gerard Haran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bomahas, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Owen Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Buckode, Co. Leitrim