School: Rooskey (roll number 4800)
- Location:
- Rúscaigh, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Luke Caslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 112
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There is a field called the fork meadow beside the Shannon (called the fork meadow) because in the Winter it is nearly covered with water and the land is the shape of a pitch-fork.A field in Cloonfad, Rooskey, owned by Mr Frank Farrell, Called the fox field. One morning he found the field covered with foxes.There is a bush outside Rooskey called the Big Bush. Long ago when people were going to America they took a branch of the bush with them. Now it is a small bush.In Aughamore, Rooskey, There is a field owned by Mr Peter Mulligan called the Cannon Park. This is the reason it is called so. In the rising of United Irishmen there was a cannon in that field.Thomas Caslin, Rooskey,
Co. Roscommon.
9th May '38
- Collector
- Thomas Caslin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rúscaigh, Co. Ros Comáin
