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School: Dubhais (roll number 16323)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 275

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    The Long Dale
    a long narrow field belonging to Andrew Gallinagh

    The Long Craft
    a long rocky garden with a drain running down the middle of it. This garden belongs to Pat Doherty

    Coirce Rock
    a big rock which was blasted in a field belonging to Conn Furey. It is said that there are fairies in this field

    The Giant's Rock
    a big rock along the river sitting on three stones. No matter how big the floods have been they have never yet moved it off the little stones. It is said that Finn McCool threw it off the top of his wee finger from Dooish Hill

    The Long Pocker
    a long narrow field belonging to Mick Doherty

    A Ford
    there is a ford across the river from our sand bed field oposite Mc Cleary's holme

    Matt's Abbey
    a field belonging to Matt McGonigle. There is said to have been a church and a graveyard there
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Location
    Dooish, Co. Donegal
    Collector
    Molly Mc Neill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dooish, Co. Donegal