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A visit from a minister
See a tweet from Darragh O’Brien here following his recent visit to see all the work done in recent times. Mr O’Brien is Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage. I wonder how many other government ministers have visited Clonmethan over the years.
Local school gets a guided tour
This week, children from the local primary school in Oldtown – the nearest village to Clonmethan – got a tour of the church and graveyard as one of their school tours. In normal times, a school tour might be to a museum in Dublin or further afield. With the global pandemic, things are of course […]
“An extraordinary escape”
Or so said the Freeman’s Journal of 26th July 1872 of a story of some local heroism in the Clonmethan parish. Appearing after two articles about the national income and Belgian agriculture, the article is reproduced below: At the cleaning up of a well in Clonmethan on Wednesday, there was a miraculous escape. After taking […]
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