School: Cluain Fhada (roll number 15091)
- Location:
- Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Thighearnáin
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- (continued from previous page)So adieu Cloonfad, where first I trod on the banks of Ballagh Lake."
Then Thomas Duignan Corbally who in one of his poems referred to his own burial plot in Aughrim.
"An arcade high points to the sky above the lonely grave.
Where wild birds sing in Clooming spring and winds nocturnal rave."
Last but not least the famous John Neary Ardleckna who in one of his many pieces referred to Barrington's soap as follows:
"It will clean all skin diseases, don't talk of cleaning clothers,
Yes, and change black birds as white as curds change ravens, daws or crows"
We had also James Mc Keon of Cloonfad.- Collector
- Sadie Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corlis, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr Edward Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lackan, Co. Roscommon