School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1076, Page 325
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- (continued from previous page)Barnes Gap.
At Port-na Blagh harbour there is a crevice in the rocks which is called "Léim Learcain". The old people say that the reason for this name is that one time a man called "Lorcan" was pursued by a wild bull. When he reached this crevice he jumped right across it thus saving himself. There is a little hollow in the side which is supposed to be where Lorcan left the stamp of his foot.
There is a dis-used roadway in the land of Robert Algeo, Rockhill, Ballymore called the "Cob Road". Mr. Algeo says that this road was made as relief work at the time of the Famine. The payment the poor workers got was potatoes called "cobs" and thence the name of the road.
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- Collector
- Patrick Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Bernard Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
