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School: Drumaweir (roll number 5228)

Location:
Drumaweer, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Aodh Ó Dómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 91

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    Away back hundreds of years ago places all over Ireland were allotted names derived from some local happenings or some events at the time. For the purpose of this composition I select the townland of Eleven Ballyboes and how it first got its name.
    In the early days of Christianity there lived a chieftain in the townland of Eleven Ballyboes who was the sole owner. Being a kind-hearted man he divided the townland into eleven equal parts and gave each man of his eleven clansmen a part for which every man was to deliver a cow every year to the chieftain. So we have the Eleven Ballyboes or the eleven cows' town.

    Cahal McCormcik
    Standard V
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Eleven Ballyboes, Co. Donegal
    Collector
    Cahal Mc Cormick
    Gender
    Male