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School: Clonegonnell

Location:
Clonagonnell, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
L. Ní Chaoindealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0976, Page 300

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  1. Name of Certain Fields

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    We have fields at home and we have names on them. There is one we call the Rock-meadow we call it that because there are Rocks in it and another we call the Orchard because long ago there was an apple garden there, and now there is no sign of any. Another one is the Bowlya because it is shaped like a bowl and another the Farland we call it that because it is far away from my home. There is an old lane it is the Bog lane.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maud Hartley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumleny, Co. Cavan

  2. Local Happenings

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    There was a woman drowned in a little pool at Clonnegonell School about 60 years ago. She fell in.
    There was a range of out houses burned in Caughoo. It was maliciously burned. There were no lives lost. It was burned in 1930.
    There was fever in Caughoo in 1880.
    There was Flu' in 1918 and 1919 many people died.
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    History Edit