School: Ballinorley (roll number 11597)
- Location:
- Bellanurly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mrs Anna Ewing
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0160, Page 184
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- (continued from previous page)we have the famous spot called Grianan, said to be the most beautiful in Ireland. Thomas O'Connor, of the Ordnance Survey, writing in 1836, quotes and translantes an old Irish saying as gollos:-
"Connaught is the Grianán of Ireland
Carbury, the Grianán of Connaught
Calry the Grianán of Carbury,
And the hill the Grianán of Colgach."
What Dr. O'Rourke calls "the despicable little hill of Leenaun" has been hitherto regarded as the place on which our ancestors bestowed so much praise, the writers being apparently misled by the term Grianán Calry, as it was called, whereas the real Grianan belongs to the Co. Leitrim,(continues on next page)
