School: Kiltrustan (roll number 4111)
- Location:
- Kiltrustan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Mac Tighearnáin
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- (continued from previous page)disbelieved about the Catholic saying. They sent out for water to the well and put it down [covered by a stain] but old people say it never did boil [covered by a stain]
- Local Place Names.
On our farm at Creta the fields are named Church-park which is a field of twelve Irish acres which rises to a hill in the front of the house. At the end next the house is an echo, by standing there and speaking high the words are again repeated in a few seconds. A lone ash-tree stands in the centre. To the East is a small fort. There is an old road adjoining this field to the West now used as a short way. In olden times it was the public road. The School House field is to the West of this road at the angle of which stands the present-school. Crossing the public road to the North we get the Curragh bottoms. Through these bottoms flows a spring stream having its(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nora Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creta, Co. Roscommon
