School: An Clochar (roll number 14705)
- Location:
- Kilbarron, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mother Philomena
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 220
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- (continued from previous page)“Hollow of the Tears.” When a funeral was in progress from Innismacsaint to the abbey cemetery, the remains were placed in a boat at Portnason, and silence was observed until the boat arrived at the shadowed “Hollow,” near the Abbey River mouth, when the mourners gave free vent to their “tears.” Port-na-Son, or Port-na-Sona, means river-bank of the ramparts. Finner is was formerly common as the name of a person, generally of a woman, but sometimes of a man, and it was also used as a place-name. As the name of a place it means “white-coloured field.
- Collector
- Aideen Stephens
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
