School: Cloonmorris (roll number 12496)
- Location:
- Cloonmorris, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Michael J. Conboy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 155
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- (continued from previous page)family living in Cloonboney [?] These were planted there by the Nesbit's.
Barney White lived in Clooncolligan and was a very funny man and always carried a horse stump in his pocket.
Nancy Scutt was a great traveller and story teller. She came to this town very often. Whenever she came she stayed for a night. The first thing she did was put down a "cast". This was a number of potatoes which she roasted in the fire. When it was cooked she ate her fill with salt and buttermilk. She had an armchair in which she sat and after a feed like this she could not get out of the chair, so she carried it around and it fastened to her.
A family named Sceffington lived in Tomiskey. Larry Mickintinker lived in Eddercloon. Eugene Langford lived in Cloonart. Ellen Bunny lived in Eddercloon Nancy Flaherty lived in Eddercloon. In olden times there were thirty two families living in Eddercloon as the old coach road ran through it. A family named McCloughry lived between Cloonart & Eddercloon. Another family of the same(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Beirne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edercloon, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Patrick Beirne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Edercloon, Co. Longford
