School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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- I know a place named Cashel Hill it is a beautiful landscape, and is visited by people from all parts in the locality. There is a fort on the hill.
I know a field named the Gaisgeac. In the field there is a biog stone and it is also called the Gaisgeac. There was an old man who was a miser and the stone is called the Gaisgeac from that time.
Every Summer the pump dries up and the people in the district have to go to another well named Tobar Sharraw.
- Collector
- Teresa Kilcoyne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardnaglass, Co. Sligo
- Knockminna got its name from the meal hill. It is said that there was a pot of meal always boiling on the top of a small hill there(continues on next page)
