School: Gortermone
- Location:
- Gortermone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs A. O' Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)to Tully lough. This was very convient to the people as there was a washing pool at the lake. The people had a flat piece of board called a 'battan' and with this they crushed the clothes against a stone named a 'battan stone'. The linen garments of long ago were too hard to wash with ones hands. The landlord was in this district until about twenty years ago.
