School: Cooneal (roll number 6416)
- Location:
- Coonealmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Patrick Timbin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0145, Page 152
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- In the village of Cooneal a farmer lived who used to have a flock of geese every year. One year his neighbour, Mr Thomas Mulhern, had flax set, and when he got up one morning he saw the geese lying into the middle of the flax. He was very vexed and he got his stick to put the geese out of the flax, but when he came as far as where they lay, there was not one goose to be seen around.
- My VillageMy Village, which is named Cooneal, is situated on the Rathball-Killala road. It is three miles from Killala, and it is about two miles from Rathball. There are eleven families in it, which are called - Mulherns, McDonaghs, Traynors, Gaughans, Knoxes, McHales, Gallagher, O'Donnells, Keegans and Tiges and Lyonses. There is also a chapel and a school in it, and it has a population of about fifty five people.Margaret Keegan
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- Margaret Keegan
- Gender
- Female
