School: Cúl Umha (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Cooloo, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Mhurchú
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- Long ago there lived a landlord in Cooloo named Mr. Edward Brown. He was a kind landlord and never evicted any tenant. When he died he willed the property to his nephew Mr. Michael O Kelly. Mr. Michael O Kelly became an invalid and his brother Edward who managed for him.
When Mr. Michael O Kelly died he was buried in the lisheen. The landlord of Cooloo were Catholics. The landlord lived in a beautiful house and the remains of the orchard and the remains of the present day.
About 160 years ago there lived in Cooloo a very poor man named Eddie Lohan. This man had a small patch of land and when he went working he only got a few pence a day. The landlords at that time were very cruel and there was a society called Rebel Men. It was said(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Fhathaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooloo, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Ellen Fahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooloo, Co. Galway
