School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)

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   Clongeen where our school is situated is written in Irish Cluain caoin and it means the meadow (or plain) which is sheltered It is so called because the land rises gradually from it towards Longraigue on the North, Ballybrack on the west and towards Rosegarland in the south. The Parish of Clongeen was first named in 1846 or 1847 the years of the Famine. Up till then most of the present parish was in the Parish of Tintern while some of it was in the Parish of Newbawn. The old national School was opened in 1846 and it was closed in 1937.

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Clongeen, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   James Cullen

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Longgraigue, Co. Wexford

2. Place Names

   

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   Foulksmills, - a beautiful little village, lies about 4 miles west of Taghmon and is distant eleven miles from the nearest town New Ross.
   The Irish name for it is Muilean a phúca and some say that was why the village was called by its name - Foulksmills.

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