School: Clonlara
- Location:
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Heoghanáin
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- (continued from previous page)of 22 houses beginning at Bridgetown with the Creamery burned to the ground, and two or three farmer's houses and two in Killbane, one being my Uncles and a next door neighbour of his - Ryans. The place being a burning mass of flames between houses and haybarns, it being the Winter on the 21st day of Feb. 1921. Cattle were in the cowsheds and horses in the stables all the animals went mad when they got loose with the sight of the burning mass and the fumes of Petrol - it was hell let loose to to speak. The tans and military were mad with drink and it was only by an act of Province that the occupants escaped injury and the most miraculous thing of all on that occasion was a picture of the Sacred Heart where a little lamp was kept burning opposite was unharmed it being the only thing in the kitchen uninjured. (Many is the poor fellow) Three young Irish Volunteers were cruelly done to death on the Bridge of Killaloe. Their eyes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Moloney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Carpenter
- Address
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
