Scoil: St Columba's, Cloonagh, Granard (uimhir rolla 12813)
- Suíomh:
- Cluain Each, Co. an Longfoirt
- Múinteoir: Peter O'Reilly
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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0762, Leathanach 372
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- XML Scoil: St Columba's, Cloonagh, Granard
- XML Leathanach 372
- XML “Paddy Kavanagh and His Wife Nancy”
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Ar an leathanach seo
- In the townland of Corbawn now better known locally as Leitrim the old people point to a spot, where once stood a house, that was inhabited long, long ago, by a remarkable pair named Paddy Kavanagh and his wife Nancy.
The old people say, that their fathers or mothers pointed out the same spot to them, at the foot of Brian McGivney's rock, a very large boulder where the Leitrim hills slope abruptly to the plain below. This portion of the Leitrim hills, is owned by a man called McGivney, and that is the reason the rock gets its name.
Paddy and Nancy were very poor, as they were of the cottier type, so common in Ireland in those days. They had seven sons and no daughter and as it was to be, to add a bigger burden to their poverty, the seventh or last son was a cripple and he was also dumb until he recovered his speech in a remarkable way.
Old Paddy was a fisherman, he had a kind of a cot, that he made out of a tree, and in this frail craft, he was to be found at all hours, and in all weather, on the [?] lough, as long as there was any chance of a catch. He was an expert fisherman, and the people used to say that he had(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)- Faisnéiseoir
- Mr Joseph Kiernan
- Inscne
- Fireann
- Seoladh
- An Chorr Bhán nó Liatroim, Co. an Longfoirt