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1. My Home Townland

   

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   There is the ruins of an old house a short distance from our house. It was built of mud. There were two rooms + a kitchen in it. The kitchen is in the middle of the house. It was owned by Barney McDermot who is dead about ten years. He was ninety seven when he died. There is another old house beside our house where school was taught about twenty five years ago. John McInerney that taught in it. It is a slated house with one chimney on it. There is a wood behind this lodge. The man that taught in it is still living.

   

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2. My Home Townland

   

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   I live in the townland of Knock in Co. Meath. There are fourteen families living in it. Most of the houses are slated. There are about four or five thatched houses. In one of the thatched there lives people of the name of Flood. One of these girls is over seventy years of age + she can tell plenty of funny stories. She can also speak Irish. There is also another woman whose name is Mrs Grimbley. She is ninty years ago This woman was living in this townland in a thatched house for many years with her son. She is now living with her daughter in Dublin. There are about two hundred acres of land in Knock. Mr McKeever of Gravelmount owned one hundred acres of this land for

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Knock, Co. Meath

   Collector

   Mary Kate Smith

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Knock, Co. Meath

   Informant

   Mr James Smyth

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   49