School: Bun Machan
- Teacher: Íde, Bean Uí Chobhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Long ago a great amny people lived in that district and they owned a great many hens, ducks, geese and turkeys. All the fowl used to spend the day in a certain bog and the bog was so frequented by them that it was called The Bog of the Hens or Móin na Circe, for it was the Irish name that was always used. At first it was it was the bog or marsh only that was so called. After a while, however, the entire district came to be known by that name.
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- Collector
- Daniel Gambon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lios na gCaorach, Co. Phort Láirge
- Informant
- Thomas Mackin
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lios na gCaorach, Co. Phort Láirge