School: Ballyporeen (roll number 15134)
- Location:
- Ballyporeen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: L. Ó Conchubhair
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“This is a story I heard from an old man of how Ballyporeen first got its name.”
This is a story I heard from an old man of how Ballyporeen first got its name. Long ago there was a dye house in the end of the village near the river Duag. There was a bridge across the river, and from the river there was a pathway leading to the river lane road. On the sides of this road the bog elder trees grow. They used to cut down the trees and skin them. They then used to bring back the skins to the dye house and make dye out of them. It was then called Beal Átha Poirín or fort of the dye house. The ruins of this house can still be seen.
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“About forty years ago two girls and their mother lived about two miles from the village of Ballyporeen.”
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- Seán Ua hAoileáin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyporeen, Co. Tipperary