Crimea – (Ruined hamlet)
This cluster of small ruins was once home to eight families. The stone walls of the cabins remain along with boundary walls and trackways. In the nearby fields the remnants of potato ridges can still clearly be seen. One of the cabins has been renovated by local people to mark the 100th birthday of Jerh Jack Owen Daly who was born in one of these houses on the 15th April 1915. Jerh’s family continued to live in Crimea until the late 1940s and was the last family to leave the settlement.
External Links:
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4921588/4882225
They Called It The Boer War
By Jerry Jack Owen Daly, Local Historian and Storyteller, left the Crimea 1938, aged 17.
"The Boer War was finishing at the same time, and there was six or seven tenants here. And Tom Ned over in Gortavallig (he was the sublandlord of this area at the time), this was all called Gortavallig then. And they used to go south (for Tom Ned), one of them would go south when they'd have a calf trespassing... maybe this (land here) was belonging to two fellows now, and there was no ditch and my cow would go east to you and here goes to row, and fists and sticks, and one of them would go south and Tom Ned had a cardigan, a great cardigan they said, and he'd catch it, and he had one bad hand and he couldn't put his hand into it and it'd be hanging off. And do you see above, the old house there, look, do you see, there's a bit of a cliff there, look, hanging out and Tom Ned would come there and they'd all come to him then and he'd say; "Yerra, goddamn and your souls, sure isn't there enough for all of you"... And they worked it away from there and they'd all go away again and then in maybe two months time the next thing they'd scrap up again. And they called it the Boer War, and the Crimea then, and wasn't the Boer War fought in the Crimea?"