I called to the ancestral home of the Morans in Thoon, Fylemore to meet Cait who I heard locally would have a lot of information about the area. We began our interview by tracing some of the local families, and spoke about her schooldays and the exceptional education they received in those days. Cait’s life and work in the home farm was described to me in great detail and she spoke about her marriage and continuing in the tradition of local farmer’s wives who lived in financially difficult times in the middle of the last century.
Keywords: Fylemore, Moran, family history, school days, rural national school, education, 1940s, women in farming,
