School: Clonegonnell
- Location:
- Clonagonnell, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: L. Ní Chaoindealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0976, Page 284
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- A former teacher in this school told me, when I first came here as a teacher, nearly 16 years ago, that it gets its name from the lights which were and still are often seen in the neighbouring bog. The people believed them to be fairy lights or candles - hence the name "the meadow of the candles". I do not know from whom Mr Ross got this information but it probably was from some of the old people who used to live in the vicinity. Mr Ross, the teacher who told me this, taught & lived here well over thirty years ago, and I regret to say he died several years since.
The townland of Clonegonnell is in the parish of Kilmore, in the Barony of Upper Laughtee. There are only seven houses in the townland and about twenty-nine inhabitants. None of the present occupiers of the houses are over 60 years of age and most of them have settled in the district within the last sixteen years. None of the elder people speak Gaelic. Only one of the houses is thatched, though some of the out-houses are.
The country in the immediate neighbourhood is boggy but there is also good land in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Louisa Quinlan
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Mr Ross
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Clonagonnell, Co. Cavan
