School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile (roll number 4572)
- Location:
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. De Pazzi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0320, Page 168
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- (continued from previous page)story will give an idea of their condition. At the west corner of Mandeville Terrace was a large two storied house which had been abandoned by the tenants who probably went to England. Nobody bothered about this house, the door was open and the windows has scarcely any glass. Several poor families from the country took possession of this ruin spending their night sleeping in their clothes on the boards.
They had no furniture, the only garments or bedding they had were on their backs. Thus a family of parents and young children who took forcible possession of a room in this ruin had not alone to sleep on the floor but had to eat the little food they could provide off the "floor table". This ruin was nicknamed the "Rookery".
- Informant
- Séamus Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
