School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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- (continued from previous page)Down deep in the ground.
VII
This is the history of Drumard Jone's
The forts and the mill
And the big houses he did own
The ruins of which are standing still.
- Clooncolry is my native land
I'm very glad to say
It is situated in County Leitrim
Which is prospering well today.
II
In it there is a station
A packing house a bar
And also one hotel
At which you may hire a car
III
Through it the Great Western Railway runs
And also one small river
On the land are working her brave Irish sons
Whom I hope will toil on it ever
IV
In it there are thirty householders
About fifty children in all
On the hills are many boulders(continues on next page) - Informant
- Bridie Hackett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gubagraffy, Co. Leitrim
