School: Cillín
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Hubáin
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- (continued from previous page)village was named haile. She used all the time be singing. One day there came a terrible storm and it put seaweed up on dry land. It was a very big heap of seaweed and the people called it Port of seaweed. The seaweed was on haille's land and that is how it got the name Portnahaille.
- Killeen is a village in the parish of Ballycastle, Co. Mayo. It was called Killeen on account of the little church. It is thrown down now and only the ruins are left. Black nuns lived in the church.
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