School: Dún Gar (Frenchpark) (roll number 3961)
- Location:
- Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Mághnuis
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- (continued from previous page)to the family could ever sleep in this house. Tom Morrisroe the postman
stayed in it one night through being afraid to go through the stray field.
He was found in the morning beaten black and blue and lying on the middle of the kitchen floor. He couldn't have fallen out the settle bed in which he had lain down. He told the members of the family who had slept in the room that he
shouted and screamed for help, but they had not heard him, at all events they had not heeded him.
The same thing happened to Pat McGee when he was digging potatoes for them.
In this village of Cloonshanville is the old mill. This is a large building indeed a very large and compares favourably in size with such mills in Boyle or Castlerea. The walls and some of the roof still remain.The old drying kiln, the stores, shutes, and mill race are still there. The great great water wheel was there up to about twenty five years ago.
Oatmeal from this mill was sent as far afield as Glenamaddy, Dunmore
and Kiltimagh.
There is in it too the dye house. Here was brought the flannel, frieze and even linen for dyeing(continues on next page)
