School: Clomanto
- Location:
- Clomantagh Upper, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Liam Mac Óda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0867, Page 359
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- (continued from previous page)is Shortall. When I mentioned to an old inhabitant that I had read that the present owners were direct descendants of the Shortalls dispossessed by Cromwell - the old man indignantly informed me that "they're no such thing" that "the real Shortall is the lad who lives in BallyLarkin." The man referred to still lives. He is a labourer about 60 years old. 'Tis generally accepted by the older people that his ancesters 'never' left the district.
The Shortalls who lives at Clomantagh Castle is grandson or great grand son of a Shortall who came here from Connaught.(3) Clomantagh Church is situated in the same field as Clomantagh Castle. 'Tis almost in Ruins. It is surrounded by a burial ground (catholic) still in use. It was customary up to about 40 years ago for funerals to rest at the funeral bush (almost opposite the old church) and say the de profundis for the deceased person before entering the churchyard with the corpse.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liam Mac Óda
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
