School: Knockbride (2)
- Location:
- Knockbride, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T.J. Barron
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1015, Page 384
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- says the old town of Sherock was drowned in Lough Sillen because of a bad fight there at one time.
- Tom Sullivan heard of patterns being held in Corleck Bog; also in Drokagh at the Fiddler's Rocks in Drumnaveal. Drumnaveal was one of the four polls of Drokagh
Song
“The children were hid in the ridges.”
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- Mrs Maxwell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Canningstown, Co. Cavan
- To entertain a visitor to a farmer's house in Tullylurkin about 1800, there was put on the table, a roll of butter, cakes of oaten bread, honey in combs and tumblers of new milk. They also used homemade cheese in this house.
