School: Long an Inbhair
- Location:
- Lurgananure, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Géibhdigh
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“Lourganure means the shin boned ridge of the yew tree.”
(continued from previous page)is a piece of land in Lurganure called ''Galway'' on account of the wet swampy land that is in it.
There is a farm near our school called
''lamb fields'' from a man named Bernard Brady who used keep a lot of sheep and young lambs on his farm.
There is a field in Tievenaman called ''schoolhouse field'' because there was an old school built there many years ago. The ''well field'' got its name from a large well in the centre of the field.
There was a house in Lurganure called ''Tigh an Gaduidhe''
the house of the rogues which got its name from thieves who lived there.
''Peter's Piece'' got its name from a man called Peter Owens who lived there on a very small piece of land long ago.
- Most of the townlands in this district derive their names from the woods, hills, rivers, and bogs in it.The parish of Killenkere derived its name from two old Irish words "cilín and caor" "cilín" meaning a little church, and "caor" meaning black or dark.Lurganboy means the yellow rock from which a large profusion of dandelions that once grew upon it.Cairrig-a-Teine means the rock of the fire.Leachta is a large burial mound beside Terence Cole's cottage in Lurganure.Sliabh Dhubh means the dark mountain.Currach Beagh means the little marshy field. There is a(continues on next page)