School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Sr. M. Columbanus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 021
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Scregg:- This is the name of a wild barren heathery hill and the use of it is for quarrying stones.
Lochán:- This is the name of a wet low-lying field.
Cimín:- This is the name given to a fertile elevated field and is used for feeding sheep and young horses.
Áth na Donnóige:- This is the name given to a shallow part of a river which flows near Drumboylan and old people say that it was from the great number of fish caught there called "Donnóg" that it got its present name.
Smutterna:- This is the name given to a townland. During the famine days the occupants did their utmost to procure a good crop of barley, but alas! it was a failure and since it has been called Smutterna or in Irish "Smuit Eornain"
Derrynaseer:- This is the name given to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary C. Ewings
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr P. Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Roscommon
