School: Shannow
- Location:
- Shannow Wood, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B. Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 248
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The Still-house is so called because in olden times the manufacture of poteen was carried on in it. It was a backward field in which the poteen well remains in one corner of it. There are a flight of steps in the well by which you can decend to the bottom of it.
The Clover-hill is so called because every Summer it is covered with a red and white sheet of clover.
The flat hill is so called because it is a very flat field and it is well known for mushrooms known locally as "fairy stools".Drumeena District.
The Railway Meadow. It is thus called because it is adjacent to the Railway. Peggy's Meadow(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Toher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killybandrick, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Farrell Toher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Killybandrick, Co. Cavan
