School: Drumloughan (Dromlachan) (roll number 15665)
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 013a
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- (continued from previous page)(VI)A cháirde cléibh is beag an baoghal (?) do thír no theangain bhinnTá an duaibhseach thart, tá an lá ag teacht, is do gach (?) fior Gael gluaiseacht (?)Gách tréithe Fáil is ár dteanga shámh fá réim mar bhí fadó,Is muinntir Chluan' i sluagh na mbuan go mórdhalach mar (?)
(Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh, Meithheamh 1936)
- In olden times before the famine this part of Leitrim was very rich in folklore. At night when the neighbours came in on their ceilidhe the conversation was about old times and the old story tellers whiled away the night telling their stories. Then came the famine and the old country life was broken up, families were broken up, emigration started and half a generation was gone before the country family life was resurrected again. The new life was different to the old. Many if not all the old people were gone and the people looked to the future rather than the past for aid and consolation.
From John Clancy Faughill Cloone - Informant
- John Clancy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
