School: Cartrún
- Location:
- Cartronavally, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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Spencer Harbour
Some years ago a company started an industry, known as a pottery not he shores of Lough Allen, in which they made all sorts of chimney pipes, eve pipes, sewer pipes, bricks, and crockery.
A boat named Lady Spencer came there to take away some of the earthenware to Limerick and sometimes to England and Scotland. One day the boat became wrecked a few yards from the shore and was dashed to pieces.
The part bearing the name Lady Spencer floated into the harbour, and immediately a man called the place Spencer Harbour.
By and by the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Guihen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cartronavally, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Phillip Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Cartronavally, Co. Roscommon
