School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)Houses were a lot more plentiful in the famine times.
There were eight more houses and families in this district that emigrated to America in that year.
My townsland is not mentioned in any song or story but I believe a lot could be written about it from the famine time to the present period.
During the rising there was a lot of baynots hid in my father's field.- Collector
- Kitty Lahert
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Goodwinsgarden, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Denis Lahert
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Goodwinsgarden, Co. Kilkenny