School: Drumaweir (roll number 5228)
- Location:
- Droim an Mhaoir, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Dómhnaill
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- Away back hundreds of years ago places all over Ireland were allotted names derived from some local happenings or some events at the time. For the purpose of this composition I select the townland of Eleven Ballyboes and how it first got its name.In the early days of Christianity there lived a chieftain in the townland of Eleven Ballyboes who was the sole owner. Being a kind-hearted man he divided the townland into eleven equal parts and gave each man of his eleven clansmen a part for which every man was to deliver a cow every year to the chieftain. So we have the Eleven Ballyboes or the eleven cows' town.
Cahal McCormcik
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