School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)

Location:
Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Bheirn
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    came behind her and frightened her and she leaped out the window from the third story and everybody wondered how she was not killed, and she escaped from been ever injured. The next day she was sent to the Asylum in Ballinsloe and after a couple of months she was as good as ever again and when she went home and wrote for a reference to the present Mrs/ Cameron and she got it, this happened only about twelve or thirteen years ago.
    The following are the families that lived in Mr Plunkett house.
    The Demlishe's "
    The Plunkett's
    The Grahame's
    The Adamson's
    The Cameron's which are living there
    The present Mrs Cameron's husband was a commisioner of the police in Dublin and when he came home, one day as he was out walking with his wife he fell dead, and Mrs Cameron put up a cross as a mark where he died, and when this
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Charles Fuery
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Lecarrow, Co. Roscommon