School: Cluain Fraoich
- Location:
- Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Ó Fiachra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 367
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- There are three roads in this district. Their names are Mount brown road, the Tulsk road and the Old Road. The Mount brown road begins about half a mile from Strokestown and joins the Tulsk road about three and a half miles from Strokestown. The Tulsk road leads to Castlerea and Claremorris and then to Ballina. It used to be known as the Mail Coach road because long ago the Biaconi's cars used to pass that way on their way back to Ballina.
During the Famine Period men used to be employed making roads as relief work and part of the Tulsk road and another borreen were supposed to be made then. The men used to be paid badly , sometimes as low twopence or threepence per day. Long ago before there were any bridges the people used to cross at shallow places on stepping stones and used to ride across on horse - back.
- Collector
- Joseph Banahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonfree, Co. Roscommon
