School: Athea (roll number 15686)
- Location:
- Athea, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs M. Danaher
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- THE KILN FIELD:-There is a kiln there but it was not used for the past fifty years.
BEÁRNA na TÁRLA:-"The gap of the Happening" - This gap is in one of our fields at home and it is so called because it is said that at the time of the Elizabethan Wars in Ireland a number of Catholics were hiding on Knock Athea Hill and a traitor told on them and there was a great fight on the hill between the two parties and there was a great number of Catholics killed and it is said that the people who were killed used to appear at "Beárna na Tárla"(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eibhlín de Stach
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Athea Upper, Co. Limerick
- Collector
- John Stack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Athea Upper, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Guina
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Athea Upper, Co. Limerick