School: Coill an tSrotha (roll number 5352)
- Location:
- Cullentragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Dhorchaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 433
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- Cullentragh: place of the hazels of the stream. (Some say it means the place of the holly). Stradrian: low- lying meadow of the blackthorn.Lacoon: hill-face. Stranagress: meadow of the crossing. Stravannies: meadow of the ferns. Bronagh: place of the stones. Used in making querns. Ardvarney: high gapped-hill. Camderry: crooked oak wood. Barra Faire: tops of the watching places. Moneelum: little bare log. Briscloonagh: battle of the meadow (?) Ballaghnabehy: way of the beasts. (Way of the birches). Munakill: shrubbery of the wood.
Kilmacurrill: church of Mc Gurl (Mac Fheargail) a Longford chief who built it long ago. to atone for his crime of destroying Kilcoo monastery.
Raheen: little fort Cornacloy: the place of the twisted stones- they all lie oblique in the soil. Lugamhna: hollow of the calves or strippers. Cornavanogue: hill of the scald (carrion) crows. Tawnyinshinagh: place of the fox. Muineskeagh: shrubbery of the whitethorn Luga Ruda: hollow of the thing. (ghost)Lough a Fonta: lake of the pound.
