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Introduction to the web edition

KILFARBOY: a history of a West Clare Parish was written by Seosamh Mac Mathúna and published in early 1970's. It deals, primarily, with the parish history from 1800 forward.

The author was born in Coore East in 1898.  He qualified as a national schoolteacher in 1926 in De La Salle College, Waterford, and taught subsequently in Slieverue, Leitir Mucadha and Cloonanaha.  He founded Coláiste Laichtín Naofa (an Irish-language Summer College) in Inis Oírr, Aran Islands in 1960.  He resided in Miltown Malbay.  He published privately 'Kilfarboy: a History of a West Clare Parish' in 1973 and 'Clare Gaelicisms', a collection of Irish-language terms surviving in local usage, in 1978.  He died in 1979.

The text reproduced here, is kept as close to the original as possible, with only obvious typographical errors being amended (and hopefully, no new ones introduced).

We are grateful to the author's family for permission to reproduce the volume here and for biographical details of the author.

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Scanned proofed and prepared for the internet by Donal De Barra, 2006.

Contents

Front Cover
Illustration Kilfarboy Church
Contents
Dedication
Preface
Aerial Photo Miltown Malbay
Foreword
Kilfarboy
Miltown Malbay
Spanish Point
Moy
I Renounce
Tithes
The Clare Election 1828
Black '47
The Workhouse
Outdoor Relief
Famine Victims
1867
1879
The Hungry Eighties
The Troubled Eighties
The Great Miltown Meeting
The Miltown Boycott
The Land League Alphabet
1891
The early Nineties
The IRA
Clergy
Vocational Schools
St. Josephs
Photo Spanish Point
Churches
Holy Wells
Education
National Schools
Souper Schools
Poets and Schoolmasters
Aindrias Mac Cruitin
Seamus Mac Cruitin
Teanga na Gaeilge
Boithrin na Smaointe
The Social Life
Peerless Tom Malone
Photo: Peerless Tom Malone
The Miltown Races
The Jarvey Man
Graveyards
Environment
The Cost of Living
Three Brave Blacksmiths
The Grave of the Yellow Men
Baire Comortais
The Terrors
Peerless Tom Malone
Does Nobody Laugh in Ireland Nowadays
Parish Surnames
Map
Endpaper