School: Cloran (roll number 5282)
- Location:
- Cloran and Corcullentry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Síle Flynn
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- (continued from previous page)Then she went off.
The name of this man that took the comb was Tom Glennan. He had not any luck after that. In a few weeks after Tom Glennan died.
The bean [?] always followed the family of Geoghegans. - There was an old man in Clonmellon he was aged about eighty when he died and he used to make tops for the boys for spinning. He would take a big round piece of wood and carve it into a top. His name was Mickey Donnelly.
He usually got a few coppers for each top. He lived on the Killallon Clonmellon road and the house he lived in is now completely a ruin. He died about seventy years ago.- Collector
- Treasa De Bhond
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath