School: Caitrín Naomhtha, Eachdhruim (roll number 14423)

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   Curley, John Curley, Edward Griffin, Patrick Monaghan, and Thomas Fahy.

   Those five households consist of only eighteen people. There are no old people in this townland.

   The population was much larger in olden days, than it is at the present day. There are old ruins to be seen yet in the townland of Collola. Some of them have fallen, and many of them are standing still.

   Some of the names of the people that were living in those old ruins were:- Dolan, Crowes, Small, Connollys, Keanse and Johnstons.

   Mr. Crowe was the landlord of the Collola estate in olden days.

   (Mary Larkin, Meelehan)

   

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   My home is situated in the townland of Craugh, in the parish of Ballinasloe, and in the Barony of Cloon-Mac-Noon. Barna-Craugh means the gap of grief. During the battle of Aughrim, a lot of Irish men were killed, and the women were

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   Topics

   1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. seanchas áitiúil, dinnseanchas (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Bearna Chreach, Co. na Gaillimhe

   Collector

   Caroline Larkin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   An Currach, Co. na Gaillimhe