Cortoon More, Co. Roscommon
August 2008
12 August 2008
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Swinford alley sketches by Jack B. Yeats, 1905
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1 comments:
Cortoonmore Alley was built in 1934by two local brothers, George and Tom Philip.
The land for the Alley was donated by the Jordans.
Handball was in full swing in Cortoonmore in the 1950s.
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