School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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- Informant
- James Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- There is a lake in Cloran visible from "Hill Bo" * which is full of fish but none of them can be caught in daylight. The story goes that the fish were so abundant that people used spend Sunday fishing and often missed Mass. A priest in Clonmellon is supposed to have commented on the serious matter of losing Mass and the story goes that three men would be drowned if they continued the practice of losing Mass. Two men have already been drowned. You would not get a man to fish in that lake since. There are night lines set by which fish are caught but none are caught by day. (Old Nanny Plunkett, grandmother of the present Plunketts, said she saw forty horsemen leave the lake and go up on the hill on a moonlight night, go through some manoeuvres and return to the Lake)
- The Churchyard of Ciaran is a square and tis said there used to be found crosses - on in the centre of each side. There are(continues on next page)