School: Leamh-choill
- Location:
- Drumsillagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Ghadhra
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- (continued from previous page)a convent. The river is called by this name because there was convent near the river.Annagh meaning a pass was so called because there is a pass across the bogs in this place by which the people went to town.
DRUMSILLAGH is so called because the clay in the district is of a very dirty and dauby nature. Some maintain that the name is "Drum Sáileach, as "sally" rods or bushes grew in abundance here.
POWELLS HILL was so called because a man named Powell was killed there.
FOXHILL was so called because the foxes made their home there in the rocks. They lived there many years ago. They were so numerous that the townland was given the name "Foxhill".
LOUGH EIDEN was so called because a saint named Eiden lived near it. She is now buried in Tumna. The name for LAPHOIL IS "Leamh Coill" which means the wood of the elm trees. "Loughill" was the old name of the school named from the townland "Loughill".
About a mile below Cootehall is a place called CLOONGREHAWN. The old Irish name for it is "Cluain Grianan" or "the meadow of the sun". It is an old hill and it is so called because the sun shines on all of it from it rises in the morning till it sets in the evening.
The word "Laphoil" of recent origin was considered to sound better than "Loughill". Hence Canon Kelly named the present school building Laphoil in 1884.(continues on next page)
