School: Baile an Churraig, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 11389)
- Location:
- Ballincurry, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máighréad Ní Shúilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)decayed in the pits.
This is the way the people kept the seed of the potatoe till the following year. They cut the eyes out of the potatoes and ate the rest of them.
It was with spades the people tilled the land. - Ballingarry is the name of my home District. It is in the townsland of Ballincurry and in the Barony of Slieveardagh.
There are about twenty four families in the District and about sixty three people.
Houses are more numerous now than in former times. Most of them are slated, others thatched or tiled
There are not many old people in Ballincurry. James Connell, Mrs Connell and Mrs O'Donnell are the only people over seventy. They can not tell stories in Irish but some of them can(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bessy Webster
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballincurry, Co. Tipperary