School: Kilbeg (roll number 11039)

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   locally as the "trying times".
   Mr Mc Carroll who owns over two-thirds of the townsland has a large house where he stops during the summer months and he goes to London to reside in the early autumn. A man named Gargan owned Drakerath before Mr Mc Carroll and some previous owners were Mr Cruice and Mr Drake. Cruice owned a townsland near by called Curicetown which was called after him. He is buried in Cruictown graveyard and his figue is cut out on a flag-stone over his grave standing by his wife. Cruice is dressed in volunteer uniform and tucked under his belt is a rifle.
   No land of Mr Mc Carroll's farm is ploughed except a few acres under potatoes and the rest of the land feeds cattle. The land is notably good apart from a few fields bordering a bog where the local people cut turf for fire. There runs a river beside the bog which lies in its basin and it is a tributary to the Owen Roe. Some to the neighbouring townslands are, Clooney, Staholmog, Castletownmoore and Mountainstown.
   A large wood divides the latter from my townsland and in this wood many shrubs grow and many people pull them for transplanting.

   

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   Topics

   1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. seanchas áitiúil, dinnseanchas (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Ráth an Drácaigh, Co. na Mí

   Collector

   Matthew O Connell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ráth an Drácaigh, Co. na Mí