School: Tisrara (C.) (roll number 14930)
- Location:
- Four Roads, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Fhlaithbheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0267, Page 294
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- I live in the townland of Coolderry. It is in the parish of Tisara and the barony of Athlone. There are twenty - three people in Coolderry. There are six families. All of the houses are slated.
There is a wood behind Coolderry and from it the townland got its name. Coolderry means "The back of the oak wood". There are no people over seventy years in our townland.
There were three old houses in Coolderry. The walls of one of them are yet to be seen but the traces of the other two are gone. The people of one of the houses emigrated to America. I do not know what happened to the other people of the two other houses.
The people say that there was a short song in which Coolderry was mentioned.
It was
Sweet Kitty Dolan(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Mee
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolderry, Co. Roscommon
