School: Virginia (C )

Location:
Virginia, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Mrs B. Farrelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 450

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  1. There is an old road leading from the hospital which is about a mile outside this town to Dunancory bridge.
    It was made as relief work during the famine times The pay the men got who were working at it was sixpence per day.
    There is another road going from the new line to people's houses in the fields and it is called the "bog road" because there is a bog on each side of it.
    There is an old road from Virginia to Bailieborough.
    Travelling to Bailieborough on the usual road from Virginia one sees the commencement of the old at Corracloughan
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