School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Heslin
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- George's Lough. How it got it's name.There is a lake near Ballinamore which is called George's Lough. The name arises from this little story.Long ago there was a woman who wanted to get the power of taking butter off milk. To do this she had to cut the hand off a dead body. One night she went to Oughteraugh graveyard. She went to the grave at Oughteraugh and dug up a man's body. After this she cut the hand off the body. Then she took it to the lake and threw it in. The man's name was George, hence the name George's Lough.
- Collector
- Seán Flood
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Patrick Flood
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim