School: O' Connor Don
- Location:
- Cloonbonniff, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0247, Page 038
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- There were a good many trades in my district. The Finans in Cloonboniffe were cliabhmakers and the O'Connors were wheelwrights. There were blacksmiths in Cloonfower named Flanagans their desendants are called "gabhas." There were Flanagans in Cloontia who used to weave clothes, their desendants are called "weavers." The Connollys in Creglahan were carpenters. They used to make facks for loys, and facks for slains, wheelbarrows, ladders and stools. The Fitzpatricks in Cloonnelt were blacksmiths. The Timons in Clooncoose were coopers. They used to make tubs for milk and churns. The Costelloes in Leevelick were thatchers. The Connellas in Cloonchambers were tailors they used to go round from house to house making suits of clothes. There was alot of spinning and knitting done in this district long ago.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Cheallacháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonbonniff, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Master O' Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
