School: Cloontagh, Killashee (roll number 14650)
- Location:
- Cloontamore, Co. Longford
- Teacher: John J. Hanrahan
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- (continued from previous page)A cow that has two calves three years after others is not lucky to keep.
If you sell a cow after calving you should also sell the calf as it is not.
- There is a stone in Killashee on a wall outside a house which was an old barracks at once. There are the words that are written on it. Tom Wilkson, Tom Donnelly, Tom Keally, Bernard Brady, Michael Brown. There is a big stone in Pat Beltons field. It is called the giants stone. The tracks of his heel and hand are on it. The giant is supposed to be buried under this stone.
There is another stone on the shore of Lough Ree in Derry. The track of the giants hand is on it.Told by Tom Fallon age 58 years
Derryadd
Killashee
