School: Mantua (roll number 2327)
- Location:
- Mantua, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Beirn
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- Informant
- Michael Cannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 93
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Kilmacumsy, Co. Roscommon
- Of Caldra convent the story is told that when the nuns came to settle there the chieftain of the place refused to give them anymore than a small portion of rocky ground. The founder of the Convent asked for as much ground as her shawl would(continues on next page)