Magheramore in the 1930s
By Paul Gibbons
Transcription of narrative from the Schools Collection XIX
Written by Nora Darcy, Magheramore, c. 1937.
“I live in a village called Magheramore in the parish of Oughterard and in the barony of Moycullen. There are twenty five houses in it, some are slated and some are thatched.
The most common name is D’Arcy. The place got it’s name because it is a plain. There are eight people over seventy years. Their names are Mrs Darcy, Pat Darcy, Martin Maloney, Tom Maloney, Bartley Ruttledge, Mark Ruttledge, Mrs Ruttledge and Mrs Gavin.
Some of them have Irish. A lot of people went to America out of the village. There is very good land in it and there is only one small wood in it. There are no rivers in the village only small sruiáin (streams).”
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Bartley Ruttledge and his wife Catherine (Diskin) Ruttledge are my paternal grandparents. The raised 9 children on the farm in Oughterard. 6 of the 9 came to America and the other 3 are buried on the farm with Bartley and Catherine. Thank you for posting this article, Mr. Gibbons!
Nice to see the 1937 Folklore Commission collection on the screen. I accessed it a few years ago. Unfortunately the Boys School contribution was written by the then Headmaster, Gerard Lee, with no obvious contribution from the pupils. The “Convent” did it as it should have been done. Nora Darcy, of Magheramore, was my late mother.
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