School: Clonlara
- Location:
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Heoghanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 006
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- There are many old roads around this district that have much history attached to them.
1. The "Bog Road" which once led to a bog which is now cut away and from thence to the old canal bank. It is now in bad condition overgrown with grass and weeds and briars. It is only used by the children coming to school and the people coming to Mass. It is a favourite walk of the Canon's on account of the stream which flows by the side of it. He loves to hear the sweet music the water makes as it babbles over the stones and the "doh, me, soh" of the little wavelets.
2. The "New Line" road whose site was laid out during the famine years in "1847" and "1848". It gave employment to a number of people and they were paid at the rate of four pence per day and it is on the site "New Line" road the Germans constructed a road to connect Clonlara with the Derryfada road. The existing road was cut.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Hamilton
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Hamilton
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
