School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 156
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- The name of the district I live in is Virginia, the parish of Lurgan and the Barony of Castleraghan. The number of families in the town is seventy-five. There is up to 352 people in the town. The most common name in the district is Kellett. Micky Reilly is the oldest man in the town. He can talk some Irish. The houses in Virginia and for upwards of a mile outside the town all the houses are slated. There wasn't as many houses in the town long ago as there is now. A lot of people emigrated from this town and locality to America and England in former times. The land around this area is fairly level and rank. There is not much boggy land in this district. In one or two places in the townland there is a lot of wood. There is only one lake and a few rivers in this townland.The origin of this town dates back to the Plantation of James I. Captain Ridgeway received a grant of 1,000 acres around Lough Ramor. Two hundred and fifty acres of this was assigned to Captain Culme with orders to build a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Collector
- Natty Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
