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School: An Clochar (roll number 14705)

Location:
Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Mother Philomena
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 222

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    ate one of these salmon, became at once inspired with the spirit of poetry.
    Cloghboly: is a stony enclosure for milking cows.
    Cloghoir: or stone of gold, is the place where the king distributed gold to his chieftains.
    Creevy: or Craobhach, means “covered with branches ” and we learn from the first Inquisition that there were two divisions of Creevy, one belonging to the monks and named in consequence Creevymonach, and the other called Creevydartan, as affording pasture for yearling heifers.
    Rossnowlagh: is Nuala’s Promontory, Nuala being a pretty common name for a female.

    Margaret Daly
    Ballyshannon,
    Material obtained from my father
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
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    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
    Collector
    Margaret Daly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal