School: Cloonmorris (roll number 12496)
- Location:
- Cloonmorris, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Michael J. Conboy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 148
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- Nearly all the townlands in this district have Irish names. For instance
Cloonmorris (Cluain Muiris) Morris's Meadow;
Cloone (Cluain Áirt) Art's Meadow;
Clooneen (Cluainín) The Little Meadow;
Ballygeeher (Bellageeher) Baile na Gaoithre (?) The townland of teh wooded stream;
Cloonagheer (Cluain na Gaoithre (?) The meadow of the wooded stream;
Knock-a-drinan (Cnoc an Droighneáin) The Hill of the Blackthorns
and there are two townlands with the same name only reversed, Cloonether and Eddercloone.There are old beliefs connected with some of those townlands; for instance:- It is said that Cloonmorris is called after St. Morris. It is said that it was St. Morris who built the abbey in Cloonmorris graveyard, and he built it in one night. It is believed that when he was building it, a man passed by and did not say, "God bless the work.". St. Morris never came back there again and the abbey remained unfinished.Another version of this is, St. Morris built the abbey in one night; and one day when he was saying mass and there was a large congregation attending the walls were heard cracking. The people ran out and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Beirne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmorris, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Pat Conan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 82
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cloonmorris, Co. Leitrim
