School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 036
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- (continued from previous page)The Killucan Races were very popular in their day and were largely patronised. They were the chief event of the year in this area, but fell off and now the Regatta is the event of the year. Boating and swimming and of course fishing are the chief sports.
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- Driseog another townland North West is surely full of ditches where brambles grow abundantly. Here the children gather cans of blackberries in the harvest and here too mushrooms are got in abundance in the season.
