School: Cloongoonagh or Tooreen - St. Brigid's
- Location:
- Tooreen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0111, Page 186
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- Some Local Place Names
Aghatarn this town-land is on the southern shore of Orlar Lake. In Olden times people say on a certain Saturday a woman washing clothes on the lake shore saw a beautiful steed come out of the lake and gallop through the smooth field. She saw this steed several times but always on a Saturdayand in this way the place came to be called "Eac a tSathairn". Tooree flax was grown widely in mayo. Old people in this district point out places where the flax was washed or dried or bleached. Tooreen meaning a bleaching green was called that name from the work done there with the flax.
In some of the old houses bundles of flax are still kept.(continues on next page)
