School: Clonin, Mountrath (roll number 15932)

Location:
Clonin, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Bean Uí Bhraoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 403

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  1. Cheese was not made very much in this parish, only one family - Dooleys of Longford, excelled in home-made cheese. They used to kill a calf and save its stomach to obtain rennet for the cheese.
    In some places candles were run in moulds, there was a mould at Pratts' in Camross. Every Christmas they would kill a sheep and afterwards they would melt up the tallow and run candles.
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  2. In recent years a spear head was found in Shrahane bog by a youth named Thompson. About 50 years ago rusty swords were dug up at the making of ditches in Ros-na-clonagh near Coolrain. In Mondrehid bog a little to the rere of the ruined castle a large three legged bronze pot and a bronze sword two feet long were found, not many years ago. These are still preserved in Miss Walpole's of Mondrehid.
    Between Coolrain and the Pike-of-Rushall is a place called Kildrenagh
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