School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 139
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“Long ago a number of Englishmen came to the Sliabh-anlarainn mountain to look for coal, and iron...”
(continued from previous page)The sportsmen gave word to the police and they found out that it was the body of the missing man. His name was Nixon. For a distance of several miles, a terrible cry or roar was heard and a light was seen going over and over the mountain where he usually walked. That continued for a long time and a big number of people around here were very much afraid. They got accustomed to it, and by degrees it died away.
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“About two miles from Ballinamore in the townland of Glenacoo there is a farm of land belonging to a man named Edward Conlon.”
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- Willie O Hara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilrush, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- James Mc Ternan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cleenaghoo, Co. Leitrim