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School: Log na Daimhehe (roll number 13746)

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Log na Daibhche, Co. Shligigh
Teacher:
N. Ní Roibín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0176, Page 036

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0176, Page 036

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    Different places have different names, an on our farm in the townland of Stonehall we have a field, and it is a very big one and at the top there is an old fort.
    This fort is like where people dug and dug until they had a number of holes made and they heaped the clay up in front.
    So this field is called the Fort Field because of the big fort that is there.
    In the townland of Lugawarry there is a big rock on an mountainous place and the land round the rock is called the Giants land.
    The reason the rock
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. seanchas áitiúil, dinnseanchas (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Richard Sherlock
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ceathrú na gCaorach, Co. Shligigh
    Informant
    Mr H. Sherlock
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Ceathrú na gCaorach, Co. Shligigh