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   CARRAIG mo CROIDHE ? is another rock on Slievenakilla mountain. CARRAIG FADA is another rock on Slievenakilla mountain. LOCHÁN DUBH is a lake beside Carraig Fada. THE TWELVE LOUGHS is the name given to a number of lakes on Slievenakilla Mountain. POLL na CLOICHE MÓIRE is a place beside the Yellow River in Slievenakilla. There is a big hole there in which stones used to be found. TULACH CHREASA ? is on Slievenakilla Mountain. RIOMAIRE ? is a level place on the Slievenakilla Mountain. The people used to grow potatoes there long ago. The ridges are still to be seen. (Collected by Cait Nic Réill from her father Francis McGreal of Slievenakilla)

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2. Local Place Names

   

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   THE TWELVE ROOMS

   This is the name given to a number of crevices or caves in the Stranagarvanagh rock. Large stones are placed there in the form of twelve rooms or chambers.

   
   THE PLAYBANK

   This is a level piece of the mountain above the townlands of Corralubber and Urbal Barr in the parish of Ballinaglera. To this place the young people used to repair on the last Sunday of July in each year ( called locally "Garland" Sunday. Here they amused themselves dancing and singing and playing music.

   
   CARRAIG omo CROIDHE ?

   This is the name of a rock on the Carnfulla (?) Mountain.

   
   (Collectd by Myles McGourty from his father Myles McGourty, of Stranagarvanagh)

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