School: Kildalkey (B.) (roll number 867)
- Location:
- Kildalkey, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Muiris Ó Fearghail
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- (continued from previous page)my home district. There were not as many houses long go as there are now. There are a great many houses in ruiins also and and a great many people emigrated to America. It is not hilly or moory but it is fairly woody. There are no lakes but there is a river running through the centre of the district. It rises near Athboy and flows into the Boyne near Trim. There was a poet in it long ago named Patrick McNamee. He is dead about thirty five years.
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- Informant
- John Bird
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloncarneel, Co. Meath