School: Léana Mór (roll number 10503)
- Location:
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: -
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- (continued from previous page)filling of firkins. They used take it to town and one would get the value the week and the other next week. Drink was very cheap that time, porter was sold for 4D per pint. It was also very hard for the poor farmers going such long journeys to fairs getting up at 2 o'clock and driving their cattle with the aid of lamps, and then having to wait several hours before the buyer would come to them. They used have money made out of leather. There was once a man and he took a load of Oats to Killarney to pay his rent. Once there lived a man and he carried a small black cow with very big horns, when asked by the jobber "how much for the frame", the owner answered "handle bars and all going together". Another man had a very big cow and when asked "how much for the hearse" answered, "all according to how for you have to carry the corpse".(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Catherine Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meelcon, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Daniel Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Collector
- Eileen Hanrahan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Elizabeth O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Collector
- Kathleen Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Mary Finiucane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Thomas Hanrahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Daniel Finiucane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Ballylongford, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Denis Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Meelcon, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Denis Hanrahan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Richard Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Thomas Hanrahan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Leanamore, Co. Kerry