School: Castleplunkett (roll number 15545)
- Location:
- Castleplunket, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0245, Page 146
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- (continued from previous page)into the village to support Knox. Thus the villagers were reduced to possession of only, from one rood to 2 acres of land with a cabin, and the most extreme poverty ensued.
O'Connor of Milltown (Carn Garrdha) saved the village from starvation by setting portion of his moor-land for con-acre tillage, the rent to be paid in labour on his own lands. He set up a wind-mill for grinding corn, as water power was not available. The site of the wind-mill is still known, but no other trace remains.
It is said that the village was very populous at one time. The cabins were almost end to end for a distance of almost a mile, and there were clusters of cabins beside these. A very large fair-green, which still exists, was attached to the village.
Many trades and crafts were practised. There were three bróg makers, two within living memory, two weavers, a flax- hackler, a cooper, a spinning wheel maker, a nailer, a blacksmith, who made all kinds of farm implements, a caubeen maker, a number
