School: Drumloughan (Dromlachan) (roll number 15665)
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 118
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- (continued from previous page)in the direction of Arva and leaving behind it a trail of blood and the way it went is still called the Red Road.
- Charles Bohan, Farma and auctioneer, now living in Annaughbrennan, told me that when he was ab oy he saw hundreds of bones and skulls dug up in a field where he then lived in Cornulla, parish of Cloone. The old people said there was battle fought there in olden times, and the people when he was a boy used to call the field "Killala" after the battle of Killala
- The hills on the old road leading from John Dillon's cross Cloone on to Aughavas and Camgallen are called the Monuments. The road goes up and down steep hills and passes by this school. This is how it got its name. In the bad times '47 The English had a big boiler at Cloone Grange for making stirabout. A man named Higgins of Cloone used to go around the country with 2 big boards, one on his(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Clancy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
