School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 076
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- The name of my townland is Corstown. There are about fourteen families in it, including, roughly, sixty people. The most common family name in it is Flanagan.
All the houses in it are slated or tiled, except two that are thatched, belonging to ourselves and Miss Englishby.
This is how it is believed Corstown got its name. It was nearly all boggy land and great numbers of cranes and other wild birds used to come there in the Winter because it used to be flooded. That is why it is called Baile na gCorr in Irish. There are the remains of some of the bog oaks to be found in it still.
There are four old people that are over seventy(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Janie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corstown, Co. Meath
