School: Cloverhill
- Location:
- Cloverhill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Marcus
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- (continued from previous page)farms and farmhouses which in former years were part of these estates.
Very few of the inhabitants of the district are of old Irish native stock. The majority would appear to be descended from employees on the estates in years gone by, who settled down on the land in the district. Others may have been "planted" here from England, Scotland or Wales.
No one seems to be able to remember anything about the place farther back than forty or fifty years. There is one old woman, a Mrs Fry, 83 years of age; but she has been living in this district for the past five or six years only. She knows no Irish.
