School: Clochar (roll number 13296)
- Location:
- Inishkeel, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Giolla Bhríghde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1049, Page 37
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- (continued from previous page)named after the port.
This is how it got its name. Long ago this place was called Port Naomh the Saints port because the saints and monks coming out of the Island of Inniskeel.
- Suili. It is situated in Inniskeel island off the coast of Narin. It is a rock down low in other rocks. It got its name because it is the islands eye.
Poll Mór. It is a great hole in Narin hill.
Sean-bealach. It is a place where there was an old road and it is situated in Narin.
Dunmore. It is a hill in Portnoo, It got its name from a fort built on it.
Cruincragán. It is a rock on Narin strand Near Inniskeel island.
Na Oileanna. They are white patches of land in a field in the Bána. Narin. They are so called because they are white.
Gabarnish. It is a rock on Castlegoland strand.
Carrig an Sian. It is a rock on Narin strand. The reason it is so called is because the people fished sians from it.
Carraig Salach. It is a rock behind Portnoo pier. The people fish sians and glassan from this rock.(continues on next page) - Informant
- Patrick Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Naran, Co. Donegal
