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Virginia, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 456

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    around Lough Ramor in 1610, two hundred and fifty acres of this this grant was assigned to a Captain Culmer with orders to build a town on the shores of Lough Ramor.
    A town was needed so the planters should have the necessaries of life. In sixteen eighteen ten wooden houses were built, the timber was got from Fermanagh.
    I live in the townland of Rahardrum Barony of Castlerahan and in the parish of Lurgan.
    There are about thirty-eight families living in this townland and about one hundred and fifty six people.
    Rahardrum means
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Virginia, Co. Cavan
    Collector
    Breda Callaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Virginia, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs Callaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Virginia, Co. Cavan