School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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- (continued from previous page)schoolmaster taught a crowd of ragged schoolchildren until he was found out by the authorities and beheaded.
There is also a house and a farm of land in the same place that was taken from its rightful owner and given to an English family, but they could not live in it because the old inhabitants haunted it. All the cattle died and finally one wild Winter's night the roof fell in killing father, mother and two sons. From that day to this the house is there in ruins and until recently the farm was a "no mans land."
- In the penal days ther lived in Drumshanbo a family of the name of Birchalls, who were Protestants, who(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Carr
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnagat, Co. Leitrim
