School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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- (continued from previous page)When the distant hills look near we will have rain and when they look far away it is a sign of fine weather. When Willie the Wisp blows the dust up in the air it is a sign of rain.
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- During the great famine some of the people of the town used to go out to Lenihan's house on the Delvin Road and root the cabbage stalks out of the manure -pit and eat them. The Famine pot used to be boiled at the ball-alley and the pot is in Thomas Fay's yard. In 1865 a circus brought the Cholera to the town. There was a man named Fox who carried the most of the dead people and buried them in Killua graveyard.