School: Cill Moicheallóg (B.) (roll number 15740)
- Location:
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Conchobhar Mac Rághnaill
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- (continued from previous page)Bully's Acre
Bully's acre is a small field beside the Work House at Kilmallock.
When the famine was raging in Ireland thousands of people died round Kilmallock of hunger. They were buried in that field which is now called Bully's acre. That ground was never consecrated.
Chideley Coote who first owned MountCoote estate which is about a mile and a half from Kilmallock was a sort of guardian in Kilmallock round about that time. The parish priest of Kilmallock wanted to consecrate the field but Coote was against it so it went to a vote. Half of the guardians were for to consecrate the field and the other half were against it. Coote looked out the window and he saw another guardian named Mortell from Glenror(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dan Hennessy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Patrick Hennessy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
