School: Cluain Fearta
- Location:
- Clonfert, Co. Galway
- Teacher: C. Ó Ríoghbhardáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0055, Page 0068
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- (continued from previous page)the possession of the Land Commission.
Fate of the dispossessed tenants - Most of them went to America and were never heard of afterwards. Some few emigrated to Leinster and other parts of Connacht. Some few were allowed to remain in bogs or other inaccessible places. Several Scotchmen (Mathers,Watt, Craig.) were brought in but none of their descendants now remain. Several families are the descendants of English soldiers from Banagher and Shannonbridge garrisons, who married girls in the neighbourhood. (Trodd, Lucas)
Among such a mixed population, drawn from so many districts, and of mixed origin there is little folklore and what little there is goes back only to the year of the famine.
