Patrick Kavanagh Trail

12. Kednaminsha National School:
Established in 1849 by Lord Bath to teach his tenants' children modern farming methods, the school's first master was a Sligo man, Patrick Kevany. Kavanagh attended under Miss Cassidy, but was an indifferent student and left at 13, when he was apprenticed to his father.

13. Mc Enteggarts' Boarding House:
Now in ruins, it was here that the first schoolmaster of Kednaminsha found lodgings, and met local widow Nancy Callan with whom he began a relationship. Nancy became pregnant, and Kevany lost his position at the school and was forced to leave Inniskeen. Nancy gave birth to a boy, christened "James Kavanagh", and raised him in the house at Mucker where she lived with her brother.

14. House of the Wake:
In "THE GREEN FOOL", Kavanagh describes a wake he attended with "Red Pat" (Jennings, the pig killer), who made on art of forecasting to the minute the time at which a person would die. The chapter was based on a wake Kavanagh attended in this house.