School: Aghalustia (roll number 12484)
- Location:
- Aghalustia, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0241, Page 057
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- About the year 1825 there was a wood stretching from Edmondstown to Castlemore and there was a way cut through the wood to make the stage coach road. This is how Ballaghaderreen got its name.
A few years later a family of the Reids settled down by the Coach road and the town grew up round them. From the court house down to Drury's corner was a bog and residents of the town have seen turf cut there. Between Duffs hardware and Flannerys corner there was an Agricultural Loan Bank. Near the Railway Bridge there was a barrack from which Barrack St. got its name.
The Mail Coach running from Dublin to Ballina used to put up for the night in a wayside inn believed to(continues on next page)
