School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 080
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- (continued from previous page)Mrs Hawes, Ardee. Mrs Hamill, Annie Carroll, and Patrick McKenna.
In my home district, houses were far more numerous in former times. There are many in ruins here in Tullakeel. A great number of people emigrated to America and Australia.
The land in general is hilly and some is boggy, but there is some very good land. There is a fine wood which covers about three acres. It is called Tullakeel wood. Seán the Rambler in his Poetry referred to the townland as "Wooded Tullakeel".
There is a splendid Fox Covert here where the Louth Hounds hunt during the winter months. It provides great sport for the people around. There is a song, too, about this hunt, of which I know only a few lines as follows,-
"The redcoats they were glancing
The nimble steeds were prancing
When Reynard was advancing
For sporting Tullakeel".
There is a cave or tunnel in the townland which runs to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mae O' Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullakeel, Co. Louth
