School: Cros Riabhach
- Location:
- Crossreagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Siordáin
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- Mullagh Village
Mullagh was built by the Saunderson family and the first house built in the village was that lately occupied by a man named Brian McKenna lately deceased. It is the second house on the Nor'western end of the street.
The site of the village was originally a swamp and here and there were tall hawthorn bushes.
Two of these remained until recently. In connection with one of them an interesting story is told. When a house was being built at that end of the town it was proposed to cut down this bush but a daughter of the landlord's noticed a bird's nest in the bush which contained eggs and she ordered that the bush be left as it was.
So it came that it remained for very long afterwards and gave a pleasant shade to the occupants of the houses near in the warm summer evenings.
A large house at the Eastern end of the village was always known a the 'Market house' as it was intended, at the time it was built, to use it as such.
Told by
Tom Smyth
Mullagh.
- Informant
- Tom Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
