School: An Maoilín, Ráth Droma
- Location:
- Trooperstown Hill, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: -
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- My townland is called " Licín ".There are small flagstones in the ground that is how it got its name " Licín "There is level land about it and it is dry. There are three farmers houses in it and our house is a cottage.The farmers houses are built of clay, and one of them is thatched. the others are covered with iron." Licín " is between three townlands they are:
Moneystown, Castlekevin and Trooperstown.Our house is between two roads on one of them there is a spring well where we get the water.
There is a bog in " Licín " which is called the Commons Bog a lot of people get turf there because each farmer owns a bank on the bog. There is a house in it, and it is called MacEntee's house where a man of that name lived long ago.It is said that one night a man by the name of Mr. Dan Byrne of Trooperstown was going home from Mr. Doyle's father's wake he saw a man going about that old house and he went in to see who is...
My grandfather told me on the 3rd. 6..38(continues on next page)
