School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 089
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- I live in the townland of Keelagh and this townland is in the parish of Annagh and the Baroney of Tullygarvey.
There are ten houses and a national school in it and there are also thirty four people living in it. The oldest of these is Patrick Smyth. He can tell very interesting stories about fairies and ghosts and a beautiful one about one night that he was led astray and no matter where he went he could not get the right way and he believed that it was the fairies led him away. There are four other people over seventy.
This townland was more thickly populated long ago than it is now.
There are more than ten houses gone to ruin and there were far more living in these houses than there are now.
It is a hilly townland and there are three lakes bordering it.
All the houses are thatched and most of them have only three apartments.
The next townland to ours is Anna Hois but this is unhabited and nothing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Michael Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
