School: Kenagh, Longford (roll number 15154)
- Location:
- Keenagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: T. Ó Murchadha
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- Leo Casey was a great Irish poet. He lived in Ballymahon. His father was a schoolteacher in Gurteen. Leo was an assistent teacher in Kenagh school for a short time. He wrote poems every where he visited. He joined the Fenians.
When he was getting off a tram in Dublin he got a fall from which he died. Every where he went he gave his name for John Kegan Casey.
- Collector
- Margaret Mc Gann
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Foygh, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Mrs Rooney
- Gender
- Female
