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  1. Hedge-Schools and a Hedge-Schoolmaster Named Alec McDonald

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    I always heard my father say that Hugh McDonald had a hedge school in Drumlara about the year of Ballinamuck. He had his school in a little field now owned by Pat McGann of Drumlara
    That field is now called "Alex's Garden" Hugh McDonald married Peggy Flynn of Drumlara and in Drumlara and their son Alec was born about the year 1798.
    Alec got his first lessons from his father but he went further.
    Father John Bohan of Corrigeen was studying with Parson Kane of Drumsna at about the same time and he taught Alec every

  2. My Home District

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    We live in Mohill district of the townland of Drumlara, in the Parish and barony of Mohill.
    There are seven families in the townland and forty people living in them, the family name most common is McHugh and McGann. There is only one type of houses - that is thatched. Drumlara got it's name from the hill of the mare because it was a suitable place for feeding mares.
    there are no old people over seventy living in it except one old man and his name is James McGann h knows no Irish and he is not a very good story-teller.
    The houses were more numerous in olden times than they are at present, there were six or seven more houses in Drumlara that there is no trace of now namely Ellen Malones, Thomas Casey's, Odey Bruens, Bartley Rooneys and Reiley's, Thady McHugh and a family of Reynolds.
    I never heard Drumlara mentioned in either song or story the land is hilly and the valleys are boggy there is no wood growing in it.
    There is only one river in the town and

  3. My Home District

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    which rises in Gortavacan bottoms and flows into the Lough between Drumlara and Tulcon and there is a tributary of the river running through Drumlara and Gortavacan on the other side and meets with the river near the Lough it is called Gortavacan river.
    The Lough is bordering our land and in olden times it is said there was a man named McHugh drowned in it and ever sense it is called Lough McHugh.

  4. Traditions of the Famine Times

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    near Kesh here he settled down and his people are there today. The Foleys remained in Tulon and your grandfather Pat Flynn of Drumlara; whose father Bartley Flynn was evicted from Drumlowan married Maggie Foley of Tulon so there you are.
    And I can tell you that during the Famine yeas here were 11 houses at Pat McGann's rock in Drumlara and a great many died because the Famine was in the air too and a lot were buried in Mikey Kavill's field along the road now and ever since, that field is called the "Graveyard"
    Is your information good I ventured ask."Sound" says he I heard it from my father and the old people, and they all went through it.

  5. St Patrick's Holy Well

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    Patrick's Well in the Townland of Drumlara parish of Mohill Co Leitrim is situated on the slope of a hill overlooking Lough McHugh It is about 100 yards east of an old fort which is alongside the county road which runs through Drumlara. The above well is on the farm of Mickey McHugh Some 40 years ago a large Ash Tree grew near the well. The tree was bout 8 feet in Diameter. It fell about 1895 and the trunk was left untouched beside the well and it crumbled away but part of it still remains where it fell.
    It has always been called Patrick's Well No well was ever built around it and there was no special day for an "Annual Pattern" Pilgrim's went to the well to secure Temporal benefits and they said "one decade of the Rosary and creed"
    Ive never heard of any cures, but the pilgrims drank the water and carried it away with them.
    The pilgrimage has not been seen in recent years
    There were no special offerings by pilgrims but pieces of cloth were offered

  6. Lime-Burning

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    The place of one of these lime kilns is to be seen in the townland of Drumlara on the farm owned by Patrick Maguire. The limestone was got in the townland of Evilagh about a quarter of a mile away.

  7. Traditions of the Famine Times

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    at his work in the morning you'd never see him again. There was 31 houses in Drumlara at the time and there was a Boiler in Drumrahan in '47 at Minor O'Briens and Thomas Conlan f Drumriggan & Frank Reynolds Corrigeen drawing meal to it (and selling it along the road)
    There was a good many people living on roods of land and acres, and 2 acres in Drumlara and Bonnymore and getting stir about from the Drumrahanboiler until the British Government passed the "quarter acre" act and that knockout any person owning a
    1/4 acre of land from getting relief, so they threw the land there and continued on relief and got their stir about.
    Three was 45 houses and families living in Drumdoo on the old road which went up by Mick Boolys and out at John Flynns and that's not a half mile and there are 4 houses there today and some of them are getting it hard enough. I'll go back farther for you now and tell you something that'll interest yourself. Very good off with you. Well in the

  8. St Patrick's Holy Well

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    on his journey to Fenagh and is supposed to have rested on Drumlara Hill at this spot overlooking Lough McHugh and the Pilgrimage dates from that time.
    The Pilgrimage was discontinued about 50 years ago but no person suppressed it.
    On a 6" Ordnance Survey map Leitrim No (?) the well may be located 16" from left hand side and 13" from bottom.

    Taken down from Owen McGann Killamaun Mohill, who is now 75 years of age and who saw the Pilgrimage in his young days which he spent ind Drumlara where he was born and reared and written into this book by J. Flynn, Drumdart, Mohill, who collected it from Owen McGannn 24/06/1934.

    NOTE
    Owen McGann whose opinions (I may remark) are entitled to respect states that St Patrick crossed the Shannon at Drumsna. Other opinions favour the tradition that he crossed it at "Battle Bridge" near the present village of Leitrim. But if Owen is correct in what he states, this well would be in

  9. (gan teideal)

    “Memories of the old Earl of Leitrim and of his son...”

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    Memories of the old Earl of Leitrim and of his son the murdered Earl (whose murder is mentioned in the foregoing song) related to me by Owen McGann of Killamaun, Mohill, who was born in Drumlara, Mohill and who is now 75 years of age.
    The old earl of Leitrim was one of the best landlords in Ireland and I'll tell you why because Phil Higgins who lived in Killamaun where Mickey Gildea now lives built a mill and one day the earl was going to the Assizes at Carrick in his coach and Phil crossed him at the Bridge and told what he had done. The Earl said "A very good idea" "My Lord" said Phil "I have no money to put works in it". "I'll complete it" says the Earl I have another request to make says Phil. "There are two small tenants says Phil between me and the road and if your lordship would shift them would give me great liberty". "Level the mill" Higgins said his Lordship dont leave a stone one a stone or I'll shift you so the mill was levelled. Ah! he was a great landlord and he gave eases to a great many tenants. His son - the murdered earl - was a tenant of his for Lough Rynn and

  10. Fairy Forts

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    There are fairy forts in our district. There names are Sandy's fort, Mc Guinesse's fort, Doyle fort, Drumlara fort, Reynold's fort, Notley's fort. They are not in view of one another. They are round in shape. There are trees round them and one in the middle of it and are raised over the ground. There are entrences into them by round holes. Nearly every-body around was in a fort.
    One time a man did not know where to build a house and three mag's flew out and he decided to build a house wherever they lit and they lit in a fort and the built their house there and they had the best luck in it and they could leave anything dirty in it. It was a custom to put potatoes on the loft and they took stooles to stand on and they left them dirty and there were three lumps of sand left on the stooles to show them they should have washed them, There were light seen in it several times. And there was music and mowing machines heard

  11. The Local Roads

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    Eslin Chapel to Tolcon and Drumlara.
    The only bridges in the district are the Eslin bridge, the Clorashinna bridge, the Stuck bridge and the Laheen bridge.
    The bye roads and the trunk roads were made before the tar road were made.
    The local customs connected with the crossroads is that the young people stand at the crossroads of a Sunday to see the people going here and there. There is a name on every crossroads, Griffin's crossroads, Harry's crossroads, Jack's crossroads and the Mill crossroads.

  12. Local Landlords

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    land-Lord. On another occasion he was determined on evicting our grandfather because he sheltered his brother-in-law who was evicted a few days previously, from Laheen South, and to which farm he was never reinstated, but the [?] hjad a lease, and therefore could not be removed
    In addition to Drumdart he owned: Drumlara, Drumrahill North et South Srumhanny, Drumdoo Kidoo, Kilamaun, Rosdaun, Gort, Keelagh, Curraghscoffy, Cloonca Clooncarn tehe most of Gortletteragh and Barnacolla, as well as numerous other places and in other counties. I think he owned part of Gorvagh too.
    In his early life he was attached to the Engineering Department of the English army, but he had to retire owing to a slight wound he received in one of his legs, giving him a halt. (Passing) Possessing great

  13. Hedge-Schools and a Hedge-Schoolmaster Named Alec McDonald

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    evening when he came home in the Summer. In this way Alec became a good scholar and when his father Hugh died Alec set up a hedge school in Alec's Garden - where his father before him taught.
    From Drumlara he moved to Lougherrill and set up at the crossroads where Pat McCrann now lives.
    From Lougherrill he went on to Drumdoo where Pat Moran lived and had his school in an outhouse of Briny Morans
    It would be about this time that National Schools were beginning and Alec went from Drumdoo to Cavan and got Eslin National School.
    From Eslin he was transferred to Greenawn in

  14. Hedge-Schools and a Hedge-Schoolmaster Named Alec McDonald

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    Eslin couldnt compete with it.
    He never read a lesson but he explained fully and you had to learn whether you liked it or not because poor Alec had a good rod and used it - sometimes too much.
    When the poor fellow went to America from Greenawn all his pupils stood up to him in new Haven and James McGann of Drumlara got up a Ball for him and made a collection for him and gathered £30 for him and sent him home
    We paid Alec one penny a week or one shilling a quarter and from November to April we had to bring two turf under our arms.
    By this means Alec

  15. Song - Francis McGann

    “Left every good neighbour and true honest friend”

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    Farewell !! to you Francis whose loss we deplore
    And in Mohill Churchyard he had evermore
    So now that he's dead and in Mohill mould
    I ask all good christians to pray for his soul.
    The foregoing account of Francis McGann was collected by J Flynn Drumdart Mohill from Owen McGann Killamaun Mohill, and the song was taken down from Jimmy McGann Drumlara Eslin bridge, Mohill, who claims relationship with Francis McGann.

  16. Occupations of the People in this Locality as Far Back as the Famine Days

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    After the failure of the potato crop the farmers in this locality began to grow oats instead.
    One man who was fortunate enough to have some seed potatoes, got them planted the following spring 1847. But so hard pressed with hunger were his neighbours that he had to sit up at night and guard his seeds or they would be taken out of the ridge by these starving creatures.
    In these famine days a man named John Maguire of Drumlara who was then 10 years old was sent to John Brady's mill at Ardlogher for a stone of oatmeal and for this he was charged a half sovereign.
    There was a distillery in Belturbet about this time and those that grew more oats than they required got a good price for it at the distillery.
    The cultivation of flax was one of the industries pursued by the farmers

  17. Traditions of the Famine Times

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    Trditions of the Famine times as related by Owen McGann Killamaun Mohill to J. Flynn Drumdart Mohill early in 1936.Owen heard it from his father - Big Stephen of Drumlara Mohill. Owen is now 75 years of age and married in Killamaun, Mobil. His father's about 30 years old when the famine came.
    My father was born says Owen in 1814 the year before Waterloo and in the Famine years he was working below at Sheemore making the road from Sheemore through Ballingaving (?) and Sheffield into the village of Leitrim. He stayed down there for 9 months because he was a sort of a ganger. There were 150 men working there twos the relief work in '47. He told me he often saw 4 or 5 corpses coming to the work every day and he had to dispatch the men to Kiltoghent to bury the corpses
    Some of the corpses were brought in "Bull rush" mats and "straw mats" because there was no tinker to make coffins. You know there was no timber a selling in towns at he time except balks which had to be carted from ships. And the man that wouldn't turn up

  18. Landlords

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    Sir Ralph Cusack was landlord ovedr the townlands of Drumlara (then written Drumlaragh) Aughnacreevy and Relliaugh. He was looked upon as being a good landlord.
    On one occasion he invited his tenants to Dublin to spend a day and a night in the city. He gave them a good time and bore all expenses.
    He also encouraged them to improve their land by paying them for draining it in the winter time. His agent a Mr Faris, Corr, Killeshandra, inspected and reported on the work. To those who wished to raise their house and slate them he allowed half the cost.
    Rector Saunderson was landlord of Killygorman, Derrinlester & Pottle.
    His Catholic tenants were always in dread of being evicted as he often threatened to do so if they did not obey his commands.
    He tried as far as he could to

  19. Local Cures

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    Water found lying on a rough stone and to put your finger unto it is a cure for warts.
    If you lick a lizard you'll have the cure of the burn.
    If a child has mumps and if you put the ass'es winkers on it and lead it round the pigstye three times it will cure him.
    Milk which a ferret has left behind after drinking some, is a cure for whooping cough.
    Frank McCormac of D|isinana has the cure for a strain.
    James Reilly Drumlara has the cure of the Rose. Miss Gindle of Ballinagh has the cure of Heart Fever. Ann Kemp Ballintemple has the cure of the Whitlo. Mrs Strong Cavan has the cure of the Evil.

  20. Song - Francis McGann

    “Left every good neighbour and true honest friend”

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    Left every good neighbour and true honest friend
    Give ear to those lines that I grievously pen
    I wrote them in praise of a famous young man
    His name to explain was brave Francis McGann
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    In the town of Drumlara this young man did dwell
    For being well-informed none could excel,
    He could read and write Irish and English also
    To my grief now, he's dead - in his grave lying low.