School: Barnaran, Rathangan (roll number 10454)
- Location:
- Barnaran, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Bean Uí Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0778, Page 170
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- 1 There is a local village called Shanavoola about eight miles from Rathangan Co Kildare. Shanavoola means an old milking place.2 There is a gap between Mr Goreys house Lullymore Rathangan and the Lodge which is called the Dancing Masters Gap and it has that name because if you were coming home at that gap at twelve o'clock in the night the dancing master would come out and dance for you.3 There is a field in Lullymore called Gills field. It is called that because a man named Gill lived in it.4 There is another field called the Longwood because long ago there was a wood in it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Giolla Phádruig
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Lullymore East, Co. Kildare
- (continued from previous page)(2) There is a man named Peter Behan who lives in Red Hills Co. Kildare who cures nervous diseases.(3) There is a girl named Mary Ann Carty Drimshree Rathangan who cures sore mouths by breathing on them.(4) There is a well called Father Moore’s well in Rathbride Rathangan that cures sore eyes if (by) (rubbing) the eyes are rubbed with the water.
