School: Monaseed (roll number 15937)
- Location:
- Monaseed, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Nioclás Ó Diomasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0889, Page 044
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- The iron road is a road leading from Monaseed to the Brook which is about a quarter of a mile in length. No one knows why it was called by this name.There is a long lane in Connahill called the Moateen lane. It was probably this because it leads from a moat situated in a field belonging to Larry Byrne Cummer.There is a field at the end of the Moateen lane called the "Seana Kyle". It is on the lands of Thomas Behan. The name would lead us to believe that there was a wood there long ago but there is no sign of the roots.There is a field on the lands of Joseph Murray Connahill which has a depression in the middle of it about twice the size of the school. This hollow is called "Leim a'Teine". It is said that "Leim a Teine" is a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Richard Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Donohoe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballyconran, Co. Wexford
