School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 039
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- About 70 years ago there lived in Esker a man named John McCrann who had two daughters, Brigid, Eliza and a son John, and at this time John the father was a widower, his wife being dead many years. he like a good many others fell into arears of rent with the Landlord the Infernal tyrant Lord Leitrim who was shot in Donegal. Lord Leitrim evicted McCrann from his home and any neighbour who gave him shelter on the property met with the same fate.John's only plan was to go to Cloonfannon Lake, and there he built a house to live in. When the Landlord heard this he gave him notice to leave the Island but he dare not evict him as the Island was on Lord Massies property. When this failed he built him a new house and gave him an acre and a half of land(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Heeran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Edward Faughnam
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonfinnan, Co. Leitrim
