School: Lochán Mór
- Location:
- Loughane More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Súilleabháin
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- The word Galán appears in many place-names locally it means --- and is still used in the same sense -- just an ordinary " big rock ". None of historical interest in the district.Mrs. Ml. Sullivan, Cill Athach, has a field called Leaca na Scríobhnóirecht (?) some sort of an inscription, rather indistinct on a rock there.Any amount of stones along the sea on both sides of Dursey Sound with holes on them. Said to have been used for land-fasting ships in the old day when this district had a flourishing foreign trade.The Irish for land-fast is buíthióg, found in a cuas called Poll Buítheóige in Dursey(continues on next page)
