School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- An Baile Nua (Shea), Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: (ní thugtar ainm)
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- (continued from previous page)one man over seventy years residing in the townsland of Haggard, and his name is James Darcy, and he is able to tell stories in English.
There are no houses in ruins in Haggard. There is a small gap about a hundred yards from my home, and it is called "Molly's Gap", so called because there was a house there long occupied by a woman called Molly Sherman. When she died her house fell, and nothing remained only a small gap. That gap is ever since called(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Other names
- Máire de Paor
- Mary Power
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tAgard, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mr John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dún Iomagáin, Co. Chill Chainnigh
