School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)
- Location:
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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- (continued from previous page)Beattys, the Carlins, the Mac Laughlins, the Magees and the Mac Conways.There are three songs about Carrowmena, two dealing with the evictions of 1881 and the third being about the Black and Tans.
The land is fairly level in our district with a slope towards the sea. It has a sandy bottom. There are no woods in Carrowmena. The Bun Dearg stream rises in the Bun Dearg hill in Lecamy and flows between Carrowmena and Drumaville into Termone Bay. - There are five forges in the parish. The smiths are:- Henry Farren, John Mac Daid, Neil Mac Daid, James Montgomery and Tomas Kavanagh. Thier people were smiths for over a hundred years. There is a forge in Carrowmena, two in Moville, one in Ballynally and one in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dan Mac Gettigan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Henry Farren
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 39
- Address
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal