Scoil: Long an Inbhair

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1. (gan teideal)

   “Lourganure means the shin boned ridge of the yew tree.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Lurganure means the skin boned shaped ridge of the yew tree.

   Boley is the name of a field on our farm and it got this name from bullocks which used graze on it.

   Polladawan is the name of another field and it means the deep pond, that is in the corner of it.

   Cumocks is the name of a field near our school, and it refers to hurling sticks.

   Another field near our school is called the "Heckny" which got its name from the large crop of whins growing in it.

   The "Puiste Bán" is the name of another field and it means the white patch, as it is a very bare field.

   Pulgurra is the name of a field referring to a rough pond which is in the corner of the field.

   Clagher got its name from being very stony.

   There is an old mill in Straugh and the hollow in which it is situated is known as the "mill hollow".

   Between Asson Bridge and the Billis there is another hollow called "Dollys Hollow".

   There is an old lone bush near our school called the "shoemaker's tree", as the old people used say they could see a shoemaker at work under this bush at midnight

   The old people used compare Carricknamadoo Lake, and a path around this lake to the "Currach Camp" in Kildare. A bog now replaces this lake, and it is called the "Currach Bog".

   The "red bog" in Waterloo got its name from a reddish sort of turf that is to be got in it.

   "Comey's Hollow" got its name from a blind fiddler who lived there long ago.

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   Stair Athraigh

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   Béarla

   Suíomh

   Lurgananure, Co. Cavan

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   Thomas Nulty

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