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School: Loughduff (C.)

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Loughduff, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0987, Page 192

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    top to form the roof. At the present day this top stone is only about half its original size.
    The reason of this is in the time of the famine eighteen forty six there was a road being made leading by the school. They made this road to give employment to the poor and they had no material. They started to break up this stone and they would have probably broken the remaining half but for the priest who chased them from it.
    About the year eighteen hundred and eighty, a school-teacher named Master Thomas O'Reilly who was keenly interested in antiquarian society work made an
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Síle Ní Chádáin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Loughdawan, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Edward Cadden
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Loughdawan, Co. Cavan