School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)

Location:
Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Thos. Mc Gettrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0065

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0184, Page 0065

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  1. 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.
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John P. Kerins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrigans Upper, Co. Sligo