School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0860, Page 047
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- I live in Gowran where there is a lot of place names. There names of fields & rivers or hills are called after people who lived there long ago or some other reason.
There is a place in Gowran just a little bit from our house called Gleann na rocka ot the Gleann of the Rocks. There is a lot of rocks & hollows in that Glenn & it is so called the Glenn of the rocks.
There is also a place in Gowran named the (Nursing) Nursery which is just at the back of our houses & it is a nice square field. There was a man named Captain Lenehan who planted a lot of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Ballymacward Upper, Co. Antrim
