resided near Dromod

62 Sherwoods DromodComing up from Kiernan's Cottage but on the other side of Dromod Street is first Sherwoods. Sherwood seems to have been a gatehouse for Aughry House. Davy was a gamekeeper I think. He and Bee the sister protestants live there and now get the old age pension. Bee used keep lodgers was a splendid cook and beloved by her lodgers the railway clerks. I must say Dromod women are with very few exceptions splendid cooks and housekeepers and generally fine looking women. I don't fear contradiction at the moment. Mr O'Sullivan M.A. our present Inspector commented on the neatness of the village and I say it is due to women generally in Dromod

Miss Annie McGush is successful shipping agent lives there with Mrs Devine + her brother a Col James All are old enough for the pension now. Devine hasnt any chn + the house was offered for sale recently but a proper price was not forthcoming. The above competes the history of Dromod village and the main Mohill road from Gort to Dromod + from Dromod to Fallass(?) Bridge on the Ck on Shannon road.Numbers 37-51+57 is 73 indicate Dromod village
1-20 The school on the Railway Stn Dromod
36 " " " Gort Crossroads
53-56 " Furnace Road

Local Place Names
Bobbies field is in Dromod Beg near Aughery in our land. It is called Bobbies field because a wicked horse was put in it called Bobbie who ate a woman and had to be sold and the field is called after him. Bob's gap is in Dromod Beg just outside Dromod village, it is called Bob's gap because a ghost appears there and people say it is Bob Gilbride and the gap is called after him.
Furnace Garden is in the townland of Furnace, it is beside the main road. It is called Furnace Garden because foreigners came there with tree mules and set up there in an old castle and began to melt iron and had always a big furnace burning. The fort lane is in Dromod Beg it runs down by Bob's gap it is called the fort lane because there is a fort there.
Nancy's garden in Aughery called because an old woman lived there called Nancy and old nuns are still to be seen. There are deer parks in Derrywillow called because a man named Nesbitt lived there long ago and he used to keep deer and put them in the Park and it is called the deer parks.

There were two giants and they lived on Corn Hill and they both wanted to marry a girl and one of the giants went away with the girl and the other threw a stone and it fell in a field of ours in Dromod Beg, Dromod. There are finger marks on it.

They would die.Written by: Susan Crowe, 14yrs 9mths
Dromod Beg,
Dromod,
Co. LeitrimObtained from: James Crowe (Farmer) 66yrs
Dromod Beg,
Dromod
Co. Leitrim

to Bernard Shanley, Fearnaught, Dromod, and if a person diseased with warts washes the affected parts in it they disappear.

There are various roads around my district namely, The mail coach road is the main road from Dublin to Sligo. The Mohill road from Dromod corner to Mohill Derrycarne road from Faltass Bridge and branches out to the main road at Annaduff Chapel.
The mail coach road was so called because the mail coach ran on it long ago, Geelaris Dromod was the headquarters for the mail coaches.

said they would not be fooled again, and they never returned. The last fair held in Dromod was on the 30th of December 1920.

Kathleen Flanagan, Carrowbehy, tells us that there are five forges in Loughglynn parish, one in Loughglynn, one in Lisacul, one in Dromod and two in Gorthaganny district. The smiths are - Hopkins, Lisacul, - Freeman, Loughglynn, Daniel Crawley, Dromod and two cousins named Quinns own those in this area.
The forge in Dromod was originally owned by Mc Nella and was derelict till Crawley set up. The crossroads close by is still known as McNella's Cross (pronounced Mac a Nella's Cross)
Peter Quinn's forge is beside the main road Ballyhaunis - Loughglynn and here his father Edward Quinn a hardworking industrious man reared a large family chiefly by his toil at the anvil for he had only a half acre of land. His brother Patrick Quinn worked beside the main road abut a half mile farther on, on the Ballyhaunis side. After his death his son Patrick let it go to decay and sold all the tools. Today, we can just see the foundation. However, about a few months Patrick decided that life in England was not so pleasant and we find him setting up a forge in a barn near his dwelling house, away in the fields, about a hundred yards from the original forge where his father worked.

The teacher who gave me the lessons in Tonic Solfa is at present an ex-teacher (Mr John Murphy) and lives at Clooneagh Dromod Co Leitrim.

married for the second time and is now living in Ballaghadereen, Co. Roscommon, while his son, my nephew, lives in the Dromod residence.

In the year 1800 a rumour went out that silver and other minerals were in Gortinee Dromod. There were a few German engineers staying in the village of Dromod and when they heard about the silver, they employed about fourteen men to mine the clay which is of a peculiar type. They sent it away for to have the silver extracted but word came that there too many chemicals and that the extraction would be too costly. On one occasion the me before going to dinner decided to put in a fuse.When they returned from their dinner, they found out that there was no explosion. The owner of the field named Jerry Duignan

fowl and with the blood they make the sign of the cross with the blood they make the sign of the cross in the four corners of the house, to keep away diseases.There is a well in a field belonging to Bernard Shanley, Fearnaught, Dromod, and if a person diseased with warts washes the affected parts in it, they disappear. This tale was told to me by Bernard Toole, Corrick, Dromod, Co Leitrim

Sergt and Mrs Mulligan (Nee Keaveney N.T.) Guards Lavelle, Reynolds + Nugents. It housed a great number of Guards because of the OMore OFarrell case + Cloonturk Hall disturbance which closed with the appt of Father J Egan CC our present curate.66 Geelans' DromodNext the P Office. Geelans protestants own a farm besides. It is a lodging house. The wheat instructor Andy Vaughen lodges there. There are 3 chns 3 boys. Bobby + Arthur in the Blue Coat School Dublin (free scholarships) and Cecil going still to Dromod Protestant school. At the back of Geelans + now owned by them in the yard where the Brancon's cars changed horses on the Sligo route.

61 Kiernan's CottageThis Cottage ends the Village of Dromod as Miss Oat's Cottage begins it on the Longford side. Kiernan's is on the Ck. on Shannon end.Michael Murray a railway porter first lived in this cottage. Frank Kiernan another railway worker got it from him. Frank married Mary McGuinness Rooskeynamona and their chn were Annie now in England. Tom a railway worker at Dromod stn and Maura the youngest who housekeeps for Tom. All came to Cloonturk schools. The father married a second time and he was transferred to Kilfree Junction where he lives with the second wife while Tom and Maura live here.

Dan Reynolds walked from Dromod corner to Dublin. When he got to Dublin he was polishing his boots and he left a spoon in it and he walked back to Dromod with the spoon in his boot.
There was a great jumper in this parish named Paddy Molloy once when he was schoming from school his father was after him and he jumped the Eslin river at the slaughter house.
Michael McGuinness was a great mower everybody had him employed mowing and he was paid four shillings. He used to mow about 2 1/2 acres in a day

The making of crocks was also a notable craft in this locality in former years. There was an old woman who lived in Dromod known as Mrs. Clarke. She made crocks by mixing with skimmed milk a special clay which was procured in her own field. Then she dug a hole in the ground and plastered the clay round to make the shape of the crock. She left it there for a few weeks until it was set and then she filed it to make it smooth.
Basketmaking was also a usual craft in this district in former years. There is a man in the townland of Dromod known as Patrick Coffey who spent the greater part of his time in making baskets from sally rods which were got in his garden.

evictions and plantings were carried out. He evicted people out of their homes the man he evicted was James Hoare Lavagh, Rooskey, Dromod, Co. Roscommon. The evicted people used to go to America and to Scotland. The land used to be divided up into farms under them. They were punished for small acts. James Reynolds was punished for cutting bushes on his own farm without the landlords orders. They used to collect tithes in the district. They used to be collected in (tithes)/kind and often in money.
Got from: Maggie May Cox. Cronkell, Ruskey, Dromod

His name was Festry Irwin and he lived at Derrin Station, Dromod, Co Leitrim He noticed the chains and not knowing anything of their history but probably seeing some future used for them he bundled them home with him to Dromod. There they remained and links were cut off them during the Great War and turned into horse shoes in a near by forge. When Irwin died his place was sold and his boy (servant) Dick Loyd took what was left of these famous chains away home with him to his native place in Farnaught Co Leitrim and to day these chains lie rusting and unseen at the end of Loyd's Hayshed:
This Place is marked on Last Diagram
See Ballinamuck.