School: Convent of Mercy, Moville (roll number 9278)
- Location:
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Sr. Celestine Clarke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 244
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- (continued from previous page)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
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- Collector
- Maura Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Kilmartin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal