School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)marbles chatting and playing pitch and toss and bon fires at the cross roads on St. Johns night.
- Their is a road in my district called by the name of Castlehill road because the townsland of Castlehill is going through it. It is not known who put there or why they were put there It is said that their is no very old road in my district. It is not known if any roads were made for relief during the time of the famine. Long ago their used to be a lot of dancing at cross roads and now a days their dont be many people dancing at cross roads. Their is a mass path going from Kilamoyne to Ileigh and these are the fields that the mass path goes through it goes through a field belonging to Jermiah Darcy and it goes through another field belonging to Thomas Younge and then it goes through a field belonging to Dan Devitt the people do not know of any other mass path being in my district.
- I live in the townsland of Gurteenabarna in the Parish of Borrisoleigh in the Barony of Kilnamanagh. There is five families in the townsland. There is twenty-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Ned Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary