School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Caisleán Riabhach
- Location:
- Castlerea, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSiúr M. Stiophán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0246, Page 193
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- Cloonkeen, which means "Fair Meadow", is my townland. Some years ago it was a place of much renown as a little church was situated in it, and even at the present day it's ruins may be seen. Beside this church there is a graveyard where children are buried and some distance from this is the track of a blessed well which was supposed to cure sores.
The most remarkable thing in the townland is a huge stone about six feet high called the méaróg and it is said that this stone was thrown from the Hill of Faughill about half a mile from the place. If we look from somewhere near this stone we can see Croagh Patrick in Mayo on a calm sultry day.
There is a fairly large wood in the village, and a river which joins the Suck, flows past it's border. A fort where raspberries and other wild fruit grow, is near at hand, and it is a fairly large one as no wood was ever cut in it, because the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Coffey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonkeen, Co. Roscommon
