School: Mostrim (B.) (roll number 2083)
- Location:
- Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Richard Hyland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0770, Page 268
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- About a quarter of a mile English out side Edgeworthstown on the Dublin road there is a place called Vaughan's Clump. It got its title because a man by the name of Michael Vaughan died.
He was a work man of Mr Gahan who lived in Garryandrew and he was going to the Village one day when he fell dead at that place.
- Collector
- John Nolan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Bernard Connelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisnagrish, Co. Longford
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“Long long ago there were no railways, no motor cars no buses no way of travelling but coaches.”
Long long ago there were no railways, no motor cars no buses no way of travelling but coaches. Those coach men used to go the roads from Dublin to Sligo carrying passengers with four or six horses under each coach according to the size of each coach.
Those coaches carried mails as well as passengers. They had a coach stop(continues on next page)
