School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)
- Location:
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Seóighe
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- The study of the Irish language would be much more fascinating if it was studied with the object in view of learning more about our Irish place names. There is not a single village or town or district in our country whose name does not suggest some particular event that happened there. It might have been some chieftain that died there or perhaps some battle that had been fought there. Our Irish place names are an index to the imagination. We have foreign town names which suggest music such as Valladolid and Toledo, but our country teems with names of places. When we look at Breaghwy, the plain of the wolves, we are reminded(continues on next page)
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- Caitlín Ní Ging
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo