School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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- Not far from here in the County Leitrim is the village of Fenagh, near which is a very ancient graveyard having an old abbey which must be of considerable antiquity. St. Cillian is buried in the graveyard of Fenagh and he is claimed by the family of the Reynolds as being akin to them. Now once years ago a family named Reynolds got a notice to quit from their landlord's agent a man named Kane. Kane was approached by several people to withdraw his notice, who pointed out to him the injustice of molesting these decent people. Nothing could move Kane, who said it was the Landlords, Sir Morgan Crafton's [?] orders, and so the eviction day drew near.
Now it occurred to the father and mother of the family that they would resort to their own relative and friend St Cillian of Fenagh. So they started out for Fenagh and said they'd do a vigil of the tomb for(continues on next page)
