School: Ballyline, Callan (roll number 14395)
- Location:
- Ballyline, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máire Nic Craith
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0854, Page 044
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- (continued from previous page)In a corner of a field by King's river on the form where I am living there meet four parishes, three baronies, two counties, four towns lands, and two provinces. Noted antiquarians considered it a place worthy of note.
- In the olden times we are told people believed that a woman travelled to different wells which she used to skim and this meant that the people on whose lands the wells were would be deprived of the cream of the milk of their cows for the rest of the year.
- It is not in many farmers houses that butter making is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maighréad Ní Baltúin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Cappahayden, Co. Kilkenny
