School: Manorvaughan (roll number 10507)
- Location:
- Rawros, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mary E. Alcorn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1078, Page 136
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- Donegal means the Dun of the foreigners, as Dermot Mc Murragh was called Dermot na ngall.
Tulach means a hill and the place got its name from the mountains which are in it.
Carrigart got its name from a man who was called Art, there was a rock outside the village on which Art used to sit and smoke his pipe. So this is how the village go the name which means the rock of Art.
Ard na gcnam is s field near the road leading into Carrigart.
It is a field with a small height in the middle of it.
Binn na gcat means the [?[ or banks of the cats, it is a field near the sea and the banks are very high and steep, it is said that wild cats lived in the holes and caves that are in the banks.
Ballyboe is in Mulroy, it means the town of the cows, people used to send their cows to graze on the field and and that is how it got its name, in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Boyce
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tirloughan, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Thomas Boyce
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Tirloughan, Co. Donegal
