School: Killesk
- Location:
- Coill Eisce, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Margt. Sutton
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 067](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0873%2FCBES_0873_067.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 067
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Killesk
- XML Page 067
- XML “My Home District”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The name of my home district is Knockea. It's Parish is Horeswood or Sutton's, and is situated in the Barony of Shelbourne. There are ten families and forty six people in it. The family name most common is O Connor. There are now two O Connor families, but in former times there were three O Connor's in Knockea, the third family emigrated to America, and the house is now occupied. There are no thatched houses in Knockea, they are all slated.
The word Knockea means The Hill of Hugh, Cnoc Aodh.
A Saint is connected with this district. This saint lived in Kilmokea.
There are two or three men over seventy in my home district. There names are -: Martin Finn and Richard Finn. There were more houses in Knockea long ago than are now. The land is hilly and good with little bog.
There are no rivers or streams.- Collector
- Kathleen Forristal
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Asple
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ráth Omnaí, Co. Loch Garman