School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

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1. My Home District

   

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   My name is Josie Tevlin. I live in the townland of Kilmainham. My Parish is Kells but I live about 1 1/2 or 2 miles from my Parish Church. More than one hundred years ago Kilmainham was called Kells and that is why some of the land there is called Old-town. Every land in Kilmainham has a name and some of the houses in Kilmainham make a village and the old people say that Kilmainham was the centre of the city of Kells hundreds of years ago. Some people say Kil means Kells and mainham means middle. At one time there was a monastery belonging to the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem at Kilmainham.

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)
         2. penal times (~4,335)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Kilmainham, Co. Meath

   Collector

   Josie Tevlin

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   14

   Address

   Kilmainham, Co. Meath

2. The Big Wind

   

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   Miss Catherine Dempsey was a very rich lady who lived in Kells. It was she who got the Convent Schools built. On the night of the big wind, her house

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