School: Carrowmore

Location:
Carrowmore, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seoirse Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 350

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  1. There was a Presbyterian family named Wilkie lived in Dunross across the county road from the landlord Mr. Young of Culdaff House. David Wilkie whose youngest child is now sixty five years of age taught in Cloncha old school about one hundred years ago.
    The walls of this old school were standing in my early days. The school was about six hundred yards from the Claggan Old Church on a moor or rough grazing hill in the townland of Cloncha.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Miss Lizzie Wilkie
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    65
    Address
    Culdaff, Co. Donegal