Over ten days ago Padraic Downey from Ballinasloe was placing signs from Cloghan where he bought a black n white spaniel pup all the way to Ballinasloe where he discovered the pup was missing. On Friday a lady below Clonmacnois rang Padraic to tell him that she had found the dog and arranged to meet him at Clonmacnois school. Padraic says he is thinking of naming the puppy....... Lucky.
Visited Clonifeen graveyard or Teamphal at the weekend.It now has a neat wire fence protecting the ruins of the old church (Teamphal in Irish) and the children's graveyard from the surrounding cattle grazing field. An old style blacksmith's iron gate for access with a gateway leading from the track used by anglers to the Hot Water stretch.Somebody has been busy cutting the weeds and grass and some trees that were planted a few years ago have survived.Thought that a stile alongside the gate at the trackway would be helpful as this gate is locked.
Examined some of the marker stones for the graves but found no inscription. At one time stillborn or unbaptized babies were not allowed to be buried in the normal cemetories and up to the mid sixties they were usually buried at night in such places as Teamphal.