School: Castlepollard Boys (roll number 5513)

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   Ballyduffy

   The name of a stream about quarter of a mile away where the people of the town procured water for domestic other than drinking purposes before the waterworks came into being.

   
   The Green

   Formerly a populous area in Castlepollard contains about one sixth of its former number of houses mostly thatched.
   Altho: referred to in voters' lists etc. as Green St
   the natives still persist in calling it "The Green"

   Killafree

   A graveyard adjoining the town.

   The Tanyard

   At the rear of Merriman's public house and adjoining "Loughpark" ( a stream which when in flood flushes the town sewers) is so called because a family named Fagan kept a tanyard there. The last of the family who was known to all and sundry as the "Tanner Fagan" died at Rathcreevagh about thirty five years ago.

   Rathcreevagh

   A district north of here about 1 1/2 miles distant.

   
   Trumroe

   A district about a mile north of Castlepollard

   
   Knockroe

   Adjoining Rathcreevagh.

   
   Durcan's Folly

   Area leading from The Loughpark, back of the Pollard Arms Hotel to Kinturk. So called because a man a century and a half ago named Durkin conceived the idea of draining The Loughpark by a drain leading to Kinturk. He had not proceeded far with the work when he discovered that it was too costly and he abandoned the project.

   

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   1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. seanchas áitiúil, dinnseanchas (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael Joseph Lynch

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   13

   Address

   Baile na gCros, Co. na hIarmhí