School: Kilmore (roll number 13010)
- Location:
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eilís, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- Ar imeall an locha ar an taoibh thuait i gCorrí tá fothrach. Sean chaisleán 'seadh é. San am fadó bhí daoine darbhainm Cosnámha ina gcomhnuidhe san gceantar seo. Ba leo an caisleán seo. Tháinich Cromail anall go h-Éirinn san mbliadhain 1649, agus rinne sé créachadh mór. Bhánnuigh sé na tarta agus ruaig sé na caitlicígh le fánadih. Thug sé talamh i gclúinín do ' fhear darbh ainm "Hamilton". Nuair a chuala daoine an cheantair seo faoi an léir shcríos a bhí sé dhá dhéanamh tháinich eagla an domhain ortha. Tháinich sé agus a shaighdúirí go Corrí. Bhí daoine an cheanntair seo crunnuigthe san gCaisleán. Chuir na saighdúirí an caisleán trí theine agus doigheadh gach duine ach amháin Cosnámha agus a bheirt ingean. Thug na saighdúirí iad go gClúinín agus chrochadh iad annseo.
- My Grand father was evicted and put out on the road side because he would not pay his rent. The men came and battered the house and threw out all the house utensils. The landlord was Johnston and his agent was Christopher H. Maud. It was Maud who evicted my grand father James Fallon Caralaur. He would not surrender. There was a house called the land league house built in Moderragh in one day by all the men of the district every man with a cart brought a cart or two of stones. It was built on an old road owned by no one. Other evictions at the same time Peter O'Rorke Corkhill, Pat Dolan, Greyfield, and many other people on the Montgomery Property - agent George Huston, Dromahair. This happened in 1898.
