School: An Clochar, Béal an Átha Móir (roll number 13614)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: An tSr. Áthracht
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 396
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- (continued from previous page)young, the sheep of their lambs, his cows milked, and soon :- About 1880 he could stick it no longer and he left Drumrahan behind for a Dublin tenement where he died an outcast at an advanced age.
This man was locally known as Minor O'Brien on account of his getting the property while still a minor.
- There is a man named Peter Fee living in Unchinagh. When he was young he was very fond of playing cards and it was always late at night when he got home.
One night about two o'clock as he came by Oughteraugh graveyard he met a man who asked him to play a game of cards. He had a table with him and a candle lighted. It was a wet windy night but the wind never quenched the light.
They sat down by the roadside and started to play. They played for some time and Peter was(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Meehan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Derrinkeher (Mc Donnell), Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Derrinkeher (Mc Donnell), Co. Leitrim
