"To remember. To be remembered. To not forget. To not be forgotten. To pass on communal knowledge. A welcome base of information to old and new friends and neighbours". The above thoughts are the guiding principle of a project taken on by a small group of residents in the south Sligo townlands of Keash and Culfadda. When the forestry planting in the area started to overtake the old house sites of deceased residents, one man wondered who would remembered who lived in them. Local volunteers started to meet regularly and began the task of asking older neighbours for information of the names of long deceased people and the local names given to townlands, fields and hills. They also began to ask about the names and interconnections of families down the years. They wanted to record the relations, tales and names going back before the 1901 Census. There is a lot of information that was not recorded, and only relations and neighbours know where a particular family was born. The point of this exercise is to get the history of the people and places of Keash/ Culfadda from as many sources as possible and from people before they die. Later, it is hoped to put a GPS co-ordinate on sites so that visitors can 'find' their ancestral home of land.

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