School: Gaigue (B.), Ballinamuck (roll number 13305)
- Location:
- Gaigue, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peter Duignan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0758, Page 153
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- Three estates met at Cornawn Bawn. When the landlords were evicting the people the Land League built a house there so that part of the house stood on each of the estates. It would take the three landlords together to evict the tenant
- Collector
- John Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- About sixty or seventy years ago John Kiernan of Gaigue was leaving a man named James Loughrey of Greagh a bit of the way home. They had to go over Cornawn Bawn, but when they got as far as it they were brought astray. They were travelling through fields and crossing high ditches for hours and at last they found themselves beside a turf rick and they decided to stay there until daylight. When the light came they found themselves standing up to a turf rick at Paddy Dolans of Kilty creevagh.
