Scoil: Convent of Mercy, Moville (uimhir rolla 9278)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Beginning of Moville - Ballybos (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   Ballynelly and one Ballybo in the 30 acres of Hugh Dougherty's farm where Moville now stands.

   But the late Mr Robert Nolan told me he had found other definitions in old records such as "a cow and a calf" a "cow and a half". Bishop Reeve says that in some countries a ballybo means as much land as a yoke of oxen could plough in a certain time.

   
   Rita McGowan
   Carnagarve

   
   This folklore is an extract from a lecture on Moville and its neighbourhood by:-

   Bishop Montgomery
   Moville

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

2. Pat the Fiddler

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Ages ago in a small cabin situated near the top of bruck-an-um there dwelt a lonely man commonly known as Pat the Fiddler on account of the great love he had for that instrument and the heavenly music he could draw forth from it.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Maura Doherty

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Moville, Co. Donegal

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr Kilmartin

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Moville, Co. Donegal