School: Donore (roll number 6668)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Nic Eóin
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- Name: Mullacroghan
Townland: Platten
Parish: Duleek
Barony: Lower Duleek
Number of families: Three
Number of people: Twelve
Types of houses: Slated
How the townland got its name: not known, but some say that it got the name because priests were hanged on the top of this hill and that the marks of the scaffold are still to be seen.
Old people: Mrs Margaret Fox and Mr Nesbitt are both over 70. They do not know Irish.
The townland is not mentioned in song or saying. The land though hilly is very fertile.
- Collector
- Josie Mc Guinn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Platin, Co. Meath
