School: Cnoc Beithe, An Fhiacail
- Location:
- Knockbeha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Maolruanaidh
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the townland in which I live in is not as thickly populated as it was years gone by.There are a great many old ruins in the vicinity of long ago.A great many young boys and girls went over to Australia and America from this vicinity long ago to seek a living for themselves.Theres a lake by the name of Lough Graney in this district lying between two hills and there is a verse about it as follows:-.
Lough Graney is a handsome place
It lies between a lovely vale
The lofty trees in Dillons wood
Defend from the Western gale
When hares and hounds from oe'r the ground
And hunts-men tour right speedily
Where lads and Lassies dance and sing
On the Lovely banks of Lough Graney.
- The townland in which i live is Corles.We never got the right tradition of how it got the name of Corleo.The name of the parish is Upper Tulla.The number of families in Corleo are numbering up to sixty -two.The family names that are most common are Moloneys.There are seven old people in this townland over seventy years.The oldest person in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Mc Arthur
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corlea, Co. Clare
