School: Dernakesh (B)
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Comhraidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 434
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- (continued from previous page)Drumgoon is going out of use. It is nearly grown across with briars now.
When they were making the road during famine time people had to take turnips for their dinner.
The people got 4d a day.
The road past Jerard McArdle's Dernakesh was an old path. It was about two yards wide. The path was later on made into a road.
There was a little river across the path. There was a kesh across the river made of oak. It was from that little kesh that Dernakesh got its name.
- In the year 1882 the road from Jerard Mc Carroll's bridge to Maudabawn chapel was made. Charles Mc Beann and his brother Michael made it. They were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Edward Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cran, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Bernard Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cran, Co. Cavan
