School: Ráth Dairbhe (roll number 10001)
- Location:
- Radeerpark, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Henry Mc Kenna
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- (continued from previous page)crosses the great steel bridge. This bridge is erected over a very beautiful artificial pond made very (big) many years ago, by one of Mr. Forster's Ancestors. Tourists vising this place in the summer months state there is no nicer spot in Ireland. Convenient to Ballynure there is a town-land called Killacoona, there was a convent here in former days.This was a branch house belonging to the same order of nuns as then had a convent in Clones. One day two nuns were sent by the Revd. Mother in Clones, to Killacoona with a very valuable book, and as you must know they had to walk all this way on foot, and when they came to Analore they had to walk all the way on foot, and when they came to Analore they had to cross a ford on stepping stones. This ford crossed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Mac Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Susan Mac Donnell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 44
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Ellinure, Co. Monaghan