School: Cluain Catha (roll number 16291)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teachers: Dll. Ó Módhráin Ss. Mac Eoghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 502
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- (continued from previous page)During the rebellion of 1898 the implements used by the Irish were pikes, and those were made in the forge.
- The Local Fairs.
The local fairs are held in town and the buyers sometimes transact business at the farmers houses.
There was a fair in Ballinafad formerly but it is not continued now. There was a fair and a races there for a week and there was so much quarrelling there that it had to be done(continues on next page) - Collector
- Brigid Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 92
- Address
- Ballybeg, Co. Roscommon
