School: Clara (Convent)
- Location:
- Clara, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Sr. Bernadette
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0807, Page 155
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- The district in which I live is situated about a mile and a half outside the town of Clara. It is called Ballinough - the town of the hills.
There are eleven different families living in it. In former years there were about twenty families living in it . There are about fifty people living in it now.
Five of these people are over seventy, and one woman is eighty-six. Every one of these are farmers, and there was once a man lived there who could speak Irish.
In the townsland there is a wood called "Doorey Wood" and a lake called "Lough Couch". The houses are all thatched and built near each other.
The common name among the people is Colgan. There are(continues on next page)
