School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 230
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cluain Eich
- XML Page 230
- XML “Lord Jones”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)in those days that he would not sign it although it would not do him any harm.
Jones died in the poor man's home in England about thirty years ago. Following the death of Jones his house was repaired. Then it was auctioned by the Church Body with forty acres of land attached. It would not be given to a Catholic although Catholics bid for it. It was then given to a protestant by the name of Johnston without any purchase money, but the purchase money was added on to the rent. Johnston in turn was not able to keep it either. He put it up for auction in 1920 and got 3,000 pounds for it. A man by the name of McHugh, a catholic bought it and has it still.
Last Summer the Landlord's grandson came from Australia on a visit to Ireland. He came to Drumard Jones to see the home of the Jones's. When he saw the knocker on Mr. McHugh's door, he knew that the coat of arms on it belonged to the Jones's so he said to Mr McHugh that he would give him any money he wished for the knocker. Mr. McHugh said that he did not want any money for it if he replaced it with another one.
- Collector
- Mary Hackett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Liscloonadea, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr C. Hackett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Liscloonadea, Co. Leitrim
