School: Clooney, Cuinche
- Location:
- Clooney, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0593, Page 305
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“The old name of the townland now called Newgrove, was Ballyslattery”
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On the side of this old road is a heap of stones called leacht na marbh. In olden times when funerals would pass this way, a stone would be thrown each time on the heap,