School: Lismacaffry
- Location:
- Lismacaffry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Gamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 209
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- (continued from previous page)her house as she was going to work.
- The night of the big wind Kiernan's house of Clude caught fire and was burned.
In the year 1887 McEoin's mill of Clonmore was burned.
It is supposed that Conor Mac Nessa's wife Inny was drowned in the river Inny and that is why it got its name.
In 1927 Boylan's house of Coolnagun was burned.
Once upon a time there lived a woman in Clonave named Betty Conroy. When she was a while living there a neighbouring woman gave her a setting of geese eggs. When she had the geese eggs down for a while she went out to look at them one morning and when she went out it was all ducks she had.
In about 1929 there was a woman drowned in a bog hole in Killasonna her name was Mrs Briody.
A man had a cow in Granard that had two heads and anyone had to pay two pence to see her.(continues on next page) - Informant
- Hugh Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilfintan, Co. Longford
