Burren Beo - Week 4

Burren Beo Week 4

By Ellie Leyden
6th Class

For the 4th week of our Burren Beo project, we examined a census for 1901 of the Kiltiernan area. We saw a census of the Costello family. The father Patrick was a farmer and the mother Kate was a teacher. They had six boys. We got to see their handwriting and it was very hard to read. On some of the censuses it showed that some of the people could not read or write.

Next, we got to organize and perform a play about the family in the census. We got split into groups and were given a setting. Our group was at the market. Our play was about Patrick, the father, who told Willie, his son, to mind the cow while he goes to talk to Mikey, an old man. Then the cow runs away from Willie, and knocks over two rich English landlords. Then, the rich landlords sue the Costello family.

Patrick was played by Iarla, Willie was played by Lauren, Orlaith and Diarmuid were the rich landlords and I was the cow and the judge in court.

It was cool to see how people lived back then and it was very fun to do the play.