School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 072
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- (continued from previous page)About its Cromlechs historians
could tell.
II
There are ten houses in it
All are built nice and fine,
And in one of them I reside
Not far from G D Railway line
III
There are many high hills in it
And from them Drumard got
its name
Also two quarters and two Spring
wells which are noted for their fame
4
The river Eslin flows through
this townland
And the scenery all about it
Is said to be very grand.
- I
In the townland of Esker I reside,
Along with my father and mother,
I am a "lone bird" as old people say,
Without a sister or brother.
2(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mary Ahern
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
