School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 342
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- My townland - Glackrow.
The townland that is next to Mullins in Desertegney is called Glackrow, which means the red plain, or the red hollow.
The number of people that are living in it at present is - eighteen and the number of old people is one.
There is quarry in it, where a great number of stones are to be found. These stones are used for repairing roads and for other uses.
There are standing stones, which are over the top of a grave, and in that grave there is a Giant buried, for it is said that in Ireland long ago, Giants used to be very numerous, and that some of them used to live in Glackrow.
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