School: Cluain Féinne (roll number 13710)
- Location:
- Cloonfane, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Mac Conghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 277
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- (continued from previous page)of it. Even though these people got more land their rents were not increased so thus ended for ever the land-lords of Cloonmore.When dismantling the house the workmen found two babies' skeletons under the floor boards in one of the rooms. One of the Phillips was Bishop of Achonry and another of them was a great poet whose name was Phillip "an Ádh". His poems were well known by the people but they are now lost.The people who were living on the estate were compelled to give them a clamp of turf free every year and also a days work and when they came home in the evening they were thrown a basket of potatoes and a few herrings out in the yard and were called to it as you would call pigs to their feeding.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Phillips
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barroe, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Jack Grady
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Barroe, Co. Mayo
