School: Cluain Turic (C.) (roll number 12680)
- Location:
- Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0216, Page 264
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- (continued from previous page)62 Sherwoods DromodComing up from Kiernan's Cottage but on the other side of Dromod Street is first Sherwoods. Sherwood seems to have been a gatehouse for Aughry House. Davy was a gamekeeper I think. He and Bee the sister protestants live there and now get the old age pension. Bee used keep lodgers was a splendid cook and beloved by her lodgers the railway clerks. I must say Dromod women are with very few exceptions splendid cooks and housekeepers and generally fine looking women. I don't fear contradiction at the moment. Mr O'Sullivan M.A. our present Inspector commented on the neatness of the village and I say it is due to women generally in Dromod(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Gharaidh
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
